Temporal Technologies
Director of Engineering, Compute
$214K–$352K
United States (Remote) · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Jun 18, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years in software and/or infrastructure engineering, including 10+ years of people management.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree a plus.
About the job
Leads the strategy, engineering, and operations of Temporal’s compute platform, including its reliability, fleet capacity, efficiency, and economics.
What you'll do
- Set compute strategy and guide architecture, roadmap, and delivery for large-scale, multi-tenant compute.
- Lead and grow the engineering team while owning operations, on-call, incident response, and reliability improvements.
- Manage fleet utilization, capacity and supply planning, and cost-per-unit-of-compute; partner with customers and cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- 15+ years in software and/or infrastructure engineering, including 10+ years of people management and ownership of delivery and live-site outcomes.
- Experience leading teams building and operating large-scale compute platforms or fleets, including multi-tenant compute supporting production workloads.
- Deep distributed-systems and compute-infrastructure expertise, including multi-tenant isolation and security, scheduling, and resource management.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- MicroVMs and virtualization, managed-compute primitives, Kubernetes internals, or multi-cloud delivery across AWS and GCP.
- Experience with agent infrastructure or GPU/accelerated compute, including GPU scheduling and multi-tenant GPU isolation.
Pay
$214,400 – $351,750 USD base salary
Tools
Firecracker, gVisor, Edera, AWS Fargate, GCP Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, Kubernetes, AWS and GCP
AI focus
Builds the compute foundation for AI workloads, including agent infrastructure and potentially GPU/accelerated compute.
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