Senior Product Manager, Cloud Scalability & Capacity

Summary

Join Temporal as a Senior Product Manager, Cloud Scalability & Capacity, and own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Temporal Cloud's scalability and capacity management. You will help customers and internal teams scale reliably, cost-effectively, and predictably across diverse workloads. This high-impact role shapes foundational aspects like rate limiting, multi-tenant fairness, capacity allocation, and worker tuning. You will drive roadmaps for task queue priority and fairness, develop rate-limiting strategies, lead multi-cell namespace initiatives, and enhance worker tuning and scaling features. The role also involves developing internal capacity management tools and partnering with engineering, sales, support, and customers. This position offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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

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!
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• 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
• $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