Head of Engineering, Compute

About Us

Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.

Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.

Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

Head of Engineering, Compute

Companies at the frontier of the AI revolution run on Temporal. OpenAI runs on Temporal, handling millions of requests. Cursor runs its cloud coding agents on Temporal at over 50 million actions a day across 7M+ workflows, and more than a third of the pull requests its users merge now come from those agents. Replit, Lovable, Abridge, and Hebbia build their agents on it too. In the last year alone, AI-native companies executed 1.86 trillion actions on Temporal Cloud, and the curve is still bending upwards. Backed by a recent $300M Series D at a $5B valuation, we are building the durable execution layer the agentic era depends on.

The Compute team owns the layer all of that runs on. We are looking for a Senior Software Development Manager to lead the effort to make any aspects of Temporal's compute invisible to our customers, allowing them to focus on application layer innovation, while we handle the compute muck. This is a rare, build-the-foundation mandate: the compute substrate t

Department: Compute