Senior Product Manager, Cloud Scalability & Capacity
Job Summary
Job Description
As Senior Product Manager, Cloud Scalability & Capacity at Temporal, you will be responsible for defining and executing the strategy for Temporal Cloud's scalability and capacity management. This role is crucial for enabling customers and internal teams to scale reliably and cost-effectively across various workloads. You will focus on foundational platform aspects like rate limiting, multi-tenant fairness, capacity allocation, and worker tuning, significantly impacting the platform's performance and growth. You will also lead initiatives for cloud scaling approaches, multi-cell namespace improvements, and worker tuning enhancements.
Must have:
- Expertise in distributed systems
- Experience with resource scheduling and quota management
- Strong background in cloud infrastructure scaling
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or similar systems
- Proven track record delivering developer tools at scale
- Excellent communication and team alignment skills
- Data-driven, customer-focused product management
Good to have:
- Understanding of multi-tenant SaaS constraints
- Experience with rate limiting strategies
- Knowledge of capacity planning
- Experience with worker tuning
Perks:
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premium Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, Long Term & Short Term Disability, and Life Insurance
- Empower 401K Plan
- Learning & Development allowance
- Lifestyle Spending Account
- In-Home Office Setup
- Professional Memberships
- Work from Home Meals
- Internet Stipend
- Calm App Subscription
- International benefits vary by country and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
5 skills required
Job Details
Who We Are
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. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.
Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.
Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Summary
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.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 - $225,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. Benefits
- 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!
International Benefits
- 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.
Additional Perks
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
- $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)
- $500 / Year Professional Memberships
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
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