Senior Product Manager, Cloud Scalability & Capacity

As Senior Product Manager, Cloud Scalability & Capacity, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the scalability and capacity management capabilities of Temporal Cloud. You’ll help customers and internal teams scale reliably, cost-effectively, and predictably across diverse workloads. This is a high-impact role shaping the platform’s most foundational aspects, including rate limiting, multi-tenant fairness, capacity allocation, and worker tuning.

What You’ll Do

• Own and drive the roadmap for Task Queue Priority & Fairness, ensuring predictable performance across diverse workloads.
• Develop and refine rate limiting strategies across multiple dimensions, balancing factors including diverse customer workloads, margin of safety for system operations, capacity planning, infrastructure availability, and more.
• Drive the roadmap for Cloud scaling approaches including autoscaling and reserved capacity models.
• Lead multi-cell namespace initiatives to improve isolation and resource management at scale.
• Enhance worker tuning and scaling features, including improvements to the Temporal Kubernetes Worker Controller.
• Develop internal capacity management tools and frameworks to optimize cloud resource utilization, performance, and predictability across Temporal Cloud.
• Partner closely with engineering, sales, support, and customers to align on requirements and deliver solutions that scale with our most critical workloads.
  
  

What You Bring

• Deep expertise in distributed systems and practical experience with resource scheduling, quota management, and fair allocation.
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure scaling and performance optimization, with an understanding of multi-tenant SaaS constraints.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration systems and their role in scalability.
• Proven track record of delivering developer- or operator-focused tools at scale.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to align diverse teams around shared goals.
• A data-driven, customer-focused, and pragmatic product management style.

• The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 - $225,000.
• 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.