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Head of Engineering, Compute

Temporal

United States · full time · Senior

$320,000 – $335,000

Listed on Temporal’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Lead the compute infrastructure team building the durable execution layer that powers AI workloads at scale, responsible for platform strategy, team growth, and operational excellence. This role suits experienced engineering managers with deep distributed-systems expertise and a track record operating multi-tenant infrastructure in production environments.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 15+ years in software or infrastructure engineering
  • 10+ years of people management
  • Proven experience leading teams building and operating large-scale compute platforms
  • Deep distributed-systems and compute infrastructure expertise
  • Experience operating multi-tenant compute in production environments
  • Strong leadership and team-building skills
  • Fleet-level thinking on utilization, capacity, and cost
  • Live-site reliability and incident management experience

Nice to have

  • MicroVMs and virtualization experience (Firecracker, gVisor, Edera)
  • Managed-compute primitives experience (Fargate, Cloud Run, Lambda)
  • Serverless or hosted-compute product development from 0 to 1
  • Multi-cloud delivery across AWS and GCP
  • Cold-start and warm-pool optimization experience
  • Agent sandbox or secure execution of untrusted code experience
  • GPU and accelerated compute experience (fractional GPUs, scheduling, training vs. inference)
  • Advanced degree in Computer Science or related field

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