Senior Engineering Manager, Compute
Core
Lead the compute substrate layer for Temporal, enabling AI agents and frontier workloads to run reliably at planet scale while handling fleet efficiency and cost optimization.
Role type
Senior Engineering Manager, Compute Infrastructure
Builds
Durable execution layer and compute fleet for AI-native companies
Domain
AI infrastructure / Distributed systems / Cloud compute
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Strategic direction for compute platforms, Technical leadership and team building, Roadmap planning in ambiguous environments, Operational excellence and incident response, Multi-tenant compute architecture, Capacity and cost economics
Preferred skills
MicroVMs and virtualization, Serverless product development, Multi-cloud delivery, GPU and accelerated compute scheduling
Technologies
Firecracker, gVisor, Edera, AWS Fargate, GCP Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, GPU (MIG, MPS)
Responsibilities
Define strategy and standards for the compute layer, Lead and grow a high-ownership engineering team, Drive roadmap from current to next-gen compute platforms, Own operations including on-call and incident response, Guide architectural decisions for large-scale multi-tenant compute, Manage capacity, supply planning, and cost-per-unit economics
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with people management
