Temporal
Senior Product Manager, Scalability & Compute
2d ago
USASeniorRemote
Senior Product Manager responsible for worker scalability and compute, focusing on deployment, hosting, and scaling of Temporal workers to enhance developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap for worker deployment options, including self-hosted and serverless execution models
- Lead worker versioning initiatives to enable safe, zero-downtime code deployments with excellent developer experience
- Evolve the Temporal Worker Controller for Kubernetes to provide worker management capabilities to the Kubernetes ecosystem
- Define the path for serverless worker execution, removing infrastructure management from the developer experience entirely
- Partner with engineering to improve worker tuning, resource efficiency, and scaling behavior across diverse compute environments
- Collaborate with customers and community to understand worker deployment pain points and validate solution directions
Requirements
- Strong background in compute platforms: serverless (Lambda, Cloud Run, App Engine), container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS), or similar infrastructure
- Experience with Version Control, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment systems
- Experience building developer-facing products where deployment simplicity and operational excellence are key differentiators
- Familiarity with autoscaling systems, workload scheduling, and resource optimization at scale
- Understanding of code versioning, deployment strategies, and the developer experience challenges of long-running stateful systems
- Proven ability to translate complex infrastructure capabilities into intuitive developer experiences
- A pragmatic, customer-focused product management approach with strong technical communication skills
Conditions
- The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 - $230,000, depending on qualifications and location.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com . Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Other
- As the Senior Product Manager focused on worker scalability & compute, you will own how developers deploy, host, and scale Temporal workers. You'll shape the compute runtime story for Temporal, from self-managed Kubernetes deployments to fully serverless execution. This role directly impacts developer experience: how easy it is to get workflows running, version them safely, and scale them automatically.
- Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness