Observability Platform Leader - Senior Engineering Manager

Blue Line Search Group; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Observability Engineering in Seattle. You will own the telemetry platform, lead a high-ownership team, and drive live-site reliability across a multi-tenant, multi-cloud environment.

You will partner with product, security, and support to deliver reliable observability experiences, optimize costs, and guide architectural decisions for scale and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams that build and operate observability platforms at scale.
• Proven ownership of delivery, live-site outcomes, and performance management.
• Strong written and verbal communication across senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the observability road map, balancing reliability, cost, and customer value.
• Lead and grow a high-ownership team, guiding design and code reviews.
• Own ingestion, storage, queries, and visualization for telemetry data.
• Drive incident response tooling, runbooks, and postmortem improvements.
• Collaborate with product and SDK teams on telemetry for customers.

Skills

Observability leadership

Distributed systems

Multi-tenant infra

Hiring & coaching

SRE & live-site engineering

Education

BS in CS or related field

Advanced degree a plus

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

Tempo

Job description

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Observability Engineering in Seattle. You will own the telemetry platform, lead a high-ownership team, and drive live-site reliability across a multi-tenant, multi-cloud environment.

You will partner with product, security, and support to deliver reliable observability experiences, optimize costs, and guide architectural decisions for scale and performance.