Senior Engineering Manager, Temporal

• B.S. or graduate degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related field.n
• Prior demonstrated results as a Software Engineer with strong distributed design and coding skills. [You won't need to code in this role, we're askig about prior experience:)]
• Excellent people leadership and growth - at least 3 years of experience leading a team of Senior/Staff level Software Engineers
• Experience with managing large scale databases or stateful services
• Experience with cloud operations managing large-scale traffic
• Experience with cloud providers, such as AWS, GCP, and/or Azure
• Experience in building and leading the development of complex distributed software systems and microservices for a cloud organization (SaaS offering)
• Experience building and/or working with databases that support large-scale (e.g., NoSQL Databases.) and implementing things like WALs
• Superior collaboration skills and experience driving alignment across an organization and drafting long-term roadmaps
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and a willingness to communicate complex solutions and results to all levels of the organization

Desirable

• We have an opening for a Senior Engineering Manager in our Cloud Data Store team (CDS) which is innovating cloud storage and rethinking the persistence layer of Temporal in a customized way
• We’re solving hard distributed systems problems related to databases and the way storage works for the cloud
• The charter of CDS team is to increase the reliability, and scalability and reduce COGS of running Temporal Cloud
• Support and develop a team of engineers through feedback and coaching - you set context and expectations while eliminating barriers to execution
• Own team-wide responsibility for day-to-day execution against priorities
• Foster key partnerships between leadership, engineering, and product teams
• Collaborate across teams to align roadmaps
• Develop multi-year roadmaps and establish the vision for CDS scalability, reliability, and engineering velocity
• Drive major system architecture, design, and execution relative to Cloud datastore and related areas
• Engage with key customers to help understand their requirements and enable their business
• Ensure team members understand priorities and have the tools and processes needed to meet shipping deadlines
• Maintain a culture of engineering and operational excellence