Temporal Technologies
Senior Engineering Manager, Observability Engineering
$220K–$362K
Seattle, Washington +1 · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
United States (Remote) - Experience
- 15+ years in software and/or infrastructure engineering, including 7+ 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 observability engineering team and owns the internal telemetry platform and customer-facing observability experience for Temporal’s multi-tenant service.
What you'll do
- Set the observability roadmap and lead, hire, and develop the engineering team.
- Own telemetry ingestion, storage, querying, visualization, alerting, incident response, and reliability improvements.
- Partner with Product and SDK teams to improve customer diagnostics, while managing observability cost, capacity, and vendor relationships.
What they ask for
- 15+ years in software and/or infrastructure engineering, including 7+ years of people management.
- Experience leading teams that build and operate production observability, monitoring, or telemetry platforms at scale.
- Strong distributed-systems expertise and experience operating multi-tenant infrastructure supporting production workloads.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Applying AI/LLM techniques to triage, anomaly detection, or incident summarization.
- OpenTelemetry expertise or production experience with open-source observability tools.
Pay
$220K – $362K USD base salary
Tools
OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Mimir/Thanos/Cortex, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, ClickHouse, Kubernetes
AI focus
Preferred experience applying AI/LLM techniques to triage, anomaly detection, or incident summarization.
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