Staff Product Manager, Cloud Namespace & Capacity
TemporalThis Staff Product Manager role focuses on infrastructure products within a managed SaaS platform. You will own the lifecycle of multi-tenant namespaces, balancing performance, reliability, and cost at scale.
What you’d own
- Cloud Namespace product surface end-to-end
- Throughput and capacity management (autoscaling, quotas, limits)
- Namespace SLOs and SLAs instrumentation
- Namespace APIs and configuration for customer automation
Who it’s for
A fit if you…
- ✓Experience shipping platform/infrastructure products with complex trade-offs
- ✓Strong systems thinking to translate workload needs into tiers and policies
- ✓Comfortable partnering with engineering on technical topics like capacity planning
- ✓Ability to drive alignment across SRE, Sales, and Security teams
Not for you if…
- ✗You prefer consumer-facing features over infrastructure and backend systems
- ✗You prefer clear, pre-defined requirements over ambiguous environments
- ✗You prefer a role without heavy focus on capacity planning or cost optimization
Reading between the lines
- The mention of 'multi-tenant scale' and 'noisy neighbor mitigation' implies you will deal with complex architectural constraints regarding isolation.
- Requirement for 'durable decisions in ambiguous environments' suggests a high degree of autonomy and the need to define processes where they don't yet exist.
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Benefits
Full job description
Compensation: $160K – $262.5K • Offers Equity • Multiple Ranges
ROLE SUMMARY
Temporal Cloud is Temporal’s managed SaaS product, used by customers to run workloads with varying requirements for throughput, latency, resilience, isolation, data residency, and cost. Namespaces are the primary unit of isolation within Temporal Cloud.
In this role you’ll own the Cloud Namespace product surface end-to-end: ensuring customers can provision, configure, operate, and evolve Namespaces safely and effectively over time. You’ll partner with engineering teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities and shape internal operational systems for namespace placement, provisioning, capacity management, and more.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Own the full Cloud Namespace lifecycle for an operator using Temporal Cloud: understanding workload needs, provisioning and management flows, defining the right configuration defaults and policies, updates-in-place, and safe deletion.
- Define and evolve differentiated Namespace offerings (e.g., higher/lower SLA, latency, durability, residency, and cost options) that are easy for customers to understand and trust.
- Own throughput and capacity management for Namespaces (e.g., autoscaling, TRUs, reserved vs. elastic capacity, scheduling, visibility, limits, and quotas).
- Drive operational policy and features (Namespace placement in deployment rings, replication, scaling) to deliver highly performant, reliable, and cost-effective service at massive multi-tenant scale.
- Define and own Namespace SLOs and SLAs, including instrumentation and customer-facing communication of performance and reliability expectations.
- Own the Namespace APIs & configuration used by customer automation, the Temporal Cloud UI, and other products and services.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
- Product leadership experience shipping and operating platform/infrastructure products, especially where reliability, performance, and cost tradeoffs matter.
- Strong systems thinking: ability to translate workload needs into tiering, pricing, policy, quotas/limits, and defaults that scale across many customers.
- Comfort partnering closely with engineering on technical topics like autoscaling, capacity planning, rolling deployment and placement logic, and resilience patterns—even if you’re not writing production code.
- Experience defining and managing SLOs/SLAs and using metrics to drive product decisions and prioritization.
- Ability to build alignment across stakeholders (Engineering, Cloud Ops/SRE, Support, Sales, Solutions, Security) and make clear, durable decisions in ambiguous environments.
- Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to produce crisp PRDs, decision docs, and customer-facing explanations.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with multi-tenant systems, workload isolation, and “noisy neighbor” mitigation.
- Familiarity with API product design for long-lived resource lifecycle operations and safe evolution over time.
- Background working on placement, routing, data residency, or geo-distributed reliability problems.
- Experience building pricing/packaging inputs for tiered services in partnership with Finance/GTM.
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
About Temporal
See all roles →Temporal is an open-source durable execution platform that lets developers write reliable distributed applications without building their own retry, state, and recovery logic. Used by Stripe, Datadog, Snapchat, OpenAI, Cloudflare, GitLab, and roughly 1,500 paying customers, it processes around 130 billion actions per month and is backed by a community of 14,000+ developers. Co-founders Samar Abbas and Maxim previously built the Cadence workflow engine at Uber and earlier worked on AWS Simple Workflow and Azure's Durable Task Framework, so Temporal sits in a deep lineage of distributed systems work. The team is remote-first with flexible hours, 20 weeks of paid birth-parent leave, fertility planning support, and stipends for WeWork or other coworking spaces.
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