Senior Engineering Manager, Observability Engineering

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☕ Washington – Remote

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💵 $220k - $362k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Temporal Technologies

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

📣 Marketing

💰 $75M Series B on 2023-02

Consulting • Manufacturing • Marketing

Temporal Technologies is a company that provides a platform for durable execution, helping developers build resilient applications by managing failures, network outages, and long-running processes. Their technology abstracts away the complexity of building scalable distributed systems, allowing developers to focus on delivering reliable systems faster. Temporal simplifies code by eliminating recovery logic, callbacks, and timers, making software more durable and fault tolerant. The platform supports a wide variety of applications, from transaction processing to applied AI, and is favored by developers for its ease of use and reliability. Temporal is open-source and offers both self-hosted and managed cloud services in multiple regions, enabling scalable, serverless application development.

📋 Description

• Own the observability team's technical roadmap and delivery • Evaluate build, buy, and open-source options while balancing reliability, customer needs, and cost • Lead, hire, and grow a high-ownership engineering team • Guide technical decisions through design and code reviews • Own ingestion, storage, query, and visualization for high-cardinality telemetry across a multi-tenant, multi-cloud fleet • Enable self-serve observability capabilities for Engineering • Own alerting and incident-response tooling end to end • Improve detection quality, routing, runbooks, and reliability through incident reviews • Partner with Product and SDK teams on customer-facing metrics, traces, and workflow diagnostics • Work with design-partner customers and incorporate feedback into the roadmap • Own observability unit economics, cardinality budgets, vendor relationships, and tool consolidation • Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, and Support to resolve priorities and deliver shared outcomes • Explain technical tradeoffs and risks to senior leaders and non-specialist partners

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading engineering teams that build and operate observability, monitoring, or telemetry platforms at scale • Strong operational practices and ownership of live-site outcomes • 15+ years in software and/or infrastructure engineering • 7+ years of people management • Experience hiring, leveling, coaching, and performance management • Strong distributed-systems expertise • Experience operating multi-tenant infrastructure supporting production workloads • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience • Command of metrics, logs, traces, profiling, and alerting • Knowledge of cardinality control, retention and downsampling, query performance, and hot/cold storage tiering • Experience with SLA/SLO definition, on-call, incident management, and postmortems • Ability to review design documents and code reviews across a distributed-systems codebase • Excellent communication and cross-functional partnership skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Remote work arrangement • AI Notetaker interview recording, with the option to opt out without affecting candidacy

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