Observability Platform Lead — Reliability & Scale

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Observability Engineering to lead and scale our telemetry platform. You will own the ingestion, storage, query, and visualization of telemetry across a multi-tenant, multi-cloud environment, while driving reliability and cost efficiency.

You will lead a high-ownership team, guiding architectural decisions and elevating developer experience. You will partner with Product and SDK teams to expose meaningful telemetry to customers,

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering teams that build and operate observability, monitoring, or telemetry platforms at scale, with strong operational practices.
• Demonstrated success leading engineering teams that build and operate production observability platforms, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own the observability roadmap and delivery, balancing reliability, cost, and customer needs.
• Lead, hire, and grow a high-ownership engineering team; mentor and clear impediments.
• Own ingestion, storage, query, and visualization for telemetry across multi-tenant, multi-cloud environments.
• Own alerting and incident response tooling end-to-end; drive reliability improvements.
• Partner with Product and SDK teams to define telemetry exposed to customers (metrics, traces, workflow diagnostics).
• Own unit economics of observability: cost per ingested series, per query, per namespace.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, and Support to resolve priorities and deliver outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Observability

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or higher in CS or related field

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Mimir/Thanos/Cortex

Grafana

Loki

Tempo

ClickHouse

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Observability Engineering to lead and scale our telemetry platform. You will own the ingestion, storage, query, and visualization of telemetry across a multi-tenant, multi-cloud environment, while driving reliability and cost efficiency.

You will lead a high-ownership team, guiding architectural decisions and elevating developer experience. You will partner with Product and SDK teams to expose meaningful telemetry to customers,