Senior Observability Platform Lead

Temporal

Oregon

Hybrid

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

7 days ago
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Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Observability Engineering in the United States. The role leads a high-ownership team responsible for observability, monitoring, and telemetry platforms at scale, including incident tooling and reliability practices.

You will guide architecture, hiring, and cross-team collaboration with Product and Security to deliver robust telemetry solutions. You will influence the roadmap for ingestion, storage, queries, and visualization across

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading engineering teams that build and operate observability, monitoring, or telemetry platforms at scale.
  • Demonstrated success leading teams with hiring, coaching, performance management, and delivery.
  • 15+ years in software/infrastructure with 7+ years of people management.

Responsibilities

  • Own the team's technical roadmap and delivery for observability at scale.
  • Lead, hire, and grow a high-ownership engineering team.
  • Own ingestion, storage, query, and visualization for telemetry data.
  • Drive alerting, incident response tooling, and runbooks for reliability.
  • Partner with Product/SDK to evolve telemetry exposed to customers.
  • Manage unit economics of observability and vendor relationships.

Skills

Leadership
Observability
Telemet ry
Incident mgmt
Distributed systems
Multi-tenant infra
Cloud platforms
Team coaching
Strategic planning

Education

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

Tools

Prometheus
Grafana
Tempo
Kubernetes
OpenTelemetry

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Observability Engineering in the United States. The role leads a high-ownership team responsible for observability, monitoring, and telemetry platforms at scale, including incident tooling and reliability practices.

You will guide architecture, hiring, and cross-team collaboration with Product and Security to deliver robust telemetry solutions. You will influence the roadmap for ingestion, storage, queries, and visualization across

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