Senior Product Manager, Worker Scalability & Compute

TL;DR

Senior Product Manager (Worker Scalability & Compute): Owns the roadmap for Temporal worker deployment options, driving strategies for workflow hosting, versioning, and autoscaling with an accent on reducing operational burden and improving developer experience. Focus on defining serverless worker execution paths, improving resource efficiency, and addressing deployment pain points for customers.

Location: Remote in the United States

Salary: $180,000 – $230,000

Company

Temporal is an open-source programming model that simplifies code, makes applications more reliable, and helps developers deliver features faster by providing a reliable foundation.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap for worker deployment options, including self-hosted, managed, and serverless execution models.
• Drive the strategy for workflow and activity hosting, reducing the operational burden of running Temporal workers.
• Lead workflow versioning initiatives to enable safe, zero-downtime code deployments with excellent developer experience.
• Evolve the Temporal Worker Controller and KEDA integration for intelligent autoscaling based on workload characteristics.
• Define the path toward serverless worker execution, removing infrastructure management from the developer experience entirely.
• Partner with engineering to improve worker tuning, resource efficiency, and scaling behavior across diverse compute environments.

Requirements

• Strong background in compute platforms: serverless (Lambda, Cloud Run, App Engine), container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS), or similar infrastructure.
• Experience building developer-facing products where deployment simplicity and operational excellence are key differentiators.
• Familiarity with autoscaling systems, workload scheduling, and resource optimization at scale.
• Understanding of code versioning, deployment strategies, and the developer experience challenges of long-running stateful systems.
• Proven ability to translate complex infrastructure capabilities into intuitive developer experiences.
• A pragmatic, customer-focused product management approach with strong technical communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays.
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision.
• Empower 401K Plan.
• Work from Home Meals ($3,600 / Year), Professional Enrichment ($1,800 / Year), Lifestyle Spending Account ($1,200 / Year), In-Home Office Setup ($1,000 / Year), Internet Stipend ($74 / Month).
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness.
• Globally distributed, collaborative team with occasional travel for company events and team offsites.