Build invincible apps with Temporal. Backed by Index, Sequoia and a16z.
About the role
Observability roadmap: Own the team’s technical roadmap and delivery, aligned with broader engineering priorities. Evaluate build, buy, and open-source options, balancing reliability, customer needs, and cost . Technical leadership: Lead, hire, and grow a high-ownership team of engineers. Guide technical decisions through design and code reviews. Coach engineers, help them grow, and clear the friction that slows them down. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 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
- 15+ years in software and/or infrastructure engineering, including 7+ years of people management, with demonstrated ownership of delivery and live-site outcomes
- Experience hiring, leveling, and performance management
- Strong distributed-systems expertise with the hands-on judgment to guide architecture and execution rather than guide it from a distance
- Experience operating multi-tenant infrastructure that other people's production workloads depend on
More about this role
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer's toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
Our values guide us — they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We're curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Companies at the frontier of the AI revolution run on Temporal. OpenAI runs on Temporal, handling millions of requests. Cursor runs its cloud coding agents on Temporal at over 50 million actions a day across 7M+ workflows. Lovable, Abridge, and Hebbia build their agents on it too. In the last year alone, AI-native companies executed 1.86 trillion actions on Temporal Cloud, and the...
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