Senior Observability Platform Engineering Manager

Temporal

United States

Remote

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Observability Engineering, guiding the telemetry platform used by some of the world's largest workloads. You will shape architecture, drive reliability, and build a high-ownership team.

This role requires hands-on leadership, deep knowledge of metrics, traces, and logs, and the ability to translate customer feedback into a roadmap that improves reliability and cost efficiency across a multi‑tenant platform.

Qualifications

  • Experience leading production observability platforms at scale.
  • Strong ownership of live-site reliability.
  • Proven ability to hire, coach, and manage teams.
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration with product and security.

Responsibilities

  • Own the observability roadmap and platform delivery across multi-cloud environments.
  • Lead, hire, and grow a high-ownership engineering team.
  • Oversee ingestion, storage, query, and visualization for telemetry data.
  • Drive incident response tooling, on-call practices, and postmortem process.
  • Collaborate with product, design, and customers to shape the roadmap.
  • Manage unit economics and vendor relationships for observability costs.

Skills

Leadership & coaching
Observability / telemetry platforms
Distributed systems
Communication across teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
Advanced degree a plus

Tools

OpenTelemetry
Prometheus
Grafana
Tempo
Loki
ClickHouse
Kubernetes

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Observability Engineering, guiding the telemetry platform used by some of the world's largest workloads. You will shape architecture, drive reliability, and build a high-ownership team.

This role requires hands-on leadership, deep knowledge of metrics, traces, and logs, and the ability to translate customer feedback into a roadmap that improves reliability and cost efficiency across a multi‑tenant platform.

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