Senior Engineering Manager, Compute

About the 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! Senior Engineering Manager, Compute 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, and more than a third of the pull requests its users merge now come from those agents. Replit, 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 curve is still bending upwards. Backed by a recent $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, we are building the durable execution layer the agentic era depends on. The Compute team owns the layer all of that runs on. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the effort to make any aspects of Temporal's compute invisible to our customers, allowing them to focus on application layer innovation, while we handle the compute muck. This is a rare, build-the-foundation mandate: the compute substrate that the world's most demanding AI workloads will run on. We want a leader who has operated compute at planet scale, thinks in fleets, goodput, and cost-per-unit-of-compute, and pairs that with the operational rigor to run a service that frontier-AI companies bet production on.

Responsibilities

• Strategic direction for Compute: Own the strategy and standards of excellence for the compute layer that the world's agents run on, across design, delivery, and operations. Build a culture of ownership, quality, and customer-first decision-making.
• Technical leadership: Lead, hire, and grow a high-ownership team; roll up sleeves, ready to do deep into the trenches, by staying close to design docs and code, rather than managing from a distance. Coach engineers, level them up, and clear the friction that slows them down.
• Roadmap & trajectory: Drive the arc from today's compute toward the next-generation of compute platforms. Ground prioritization in customer and design-partner feedback, and turn ambiguous, fast-moving requirements into predictable, iterative delivery.
• Operational excellence: When you run frontier AI in production, reliability is the product. Own operations, run on-call and incident response, and drive blameless postmortems and the systemic fixes that prevent recurrence.
• Capacity, supply & economics: Own utilization, capacity and supply planning, and the cost-per-unit-of-compute and margin profile of the fleet, across CPU compute today and accelerated compute ahead.
• Cross-team & customer execution: Partner with leadership, Product, SDK, UX/DX, Security, and design-partner customers to align priorities and unblock delivery. Communicate progress, tradeoffs, and risk clearly to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams that build and operate large-scale compute platforms or fleets, with strong operational practices.
• 12+ years in software and/or infrastructure engineering, including 7+ years of people management and demonstrated ownership of delivery and live-site outcomes.
• Deep distributed-systems and compute infrastructure depth, with the hands-on judgment to guide architecture and execution rather than from a distance.
• Experience operating multi-tenant compute that other people's production workloads depend on.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree a plus.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to partner across engineering, product, and leadership and fold customer feedback into the roadmap.
• Required Skills
• Strong leadership, coaching, and performance management; ability to grow engineers and build a healthy, accountable, high-ownership team.
• Excellence in execution: planning, prioritization, an

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