Temporal is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Matching Experience team within the Temporal Core organization (Open Source Server, OSS). This team is part of the SVP of Engineering's organization and owns everything from long-term strategic efforts, to smaller improvements that make developers more productive on a day-to-day basis. Our customers are developers all over the world who build mission-critical and multi-tenant distributed applications. You’ll work closely with the SDK and product teams to deliver a consistent and intuitive experience.
You will lead projects like Versioning, Safe-Deploy, Kubernetes Controller, TaskQueue Priority & Fairness, and future developer-facing features. This is a unique opportunity to shape Temporal’s developer surface area and foster a culture of empathy, innovation, and user-first thinking.
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What You’ll Do- Recruit, grow, and retain top engineering talent through coaching, mentorship, and career development.
- Own team-wide responsibility for day-to-day execution against priorities, focused on improving the experience for developers using Temporal.
- Foster key partnerships between leadership, engineering, and product teams.
- Collaborate with product, design, and user research to deeply understand developer pain points and translate them into impactful product capabilities.
- Own the roadmap and execution for key developer experience features listed in Projects above.
- Promote API design best practices, usability, consistency, and maintainability.
- Establish and reinforce high standards of engineering quality, documentation, and testing—developer experience begins with the code.
- Work closely with the Open Source community, collecting feedback and advocating for users.
- Champion a culture of empathy for developers both inside and outside the company.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, including experience designing developer-facing APIs.
- 3+ years of experience managing or tech-leading public product with a focus on developer experience, platform tooling, or similar domains.
- Proven success in shipping developer tools or platform APIs that are intuitive, consistent, and delightful to use.
- Experience working with distributed systems, with a solid understanding of the challenges developers face when building on top of them.
- Deep understanding of software design principles, especially as they relate to usability, backward compatibility, and long-term maintainability.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills; able to drive alignment across engineering, product, and design.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly communicate technical and product decisions to stakeholders.
- A track record of building strong engineering teams and nurturing an inclusive, empathetic, and high-performance culture.
- Experience with workflow engines or orchestration systems such as Temporal, Cadence, Durable Functions, Airflow, or Step Functions.
- Experience working with Go, TypeScript, Python, or Java.
- Participation in open-source communities or projects.
- The estimated pay range for this role is $220,000 - $265,000
- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $500 / Year Professional Memberships
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO alongside 12 standard holidays and 2 floating holidays. Feedback suggests this structure supports rest and recharge across teams.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.
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Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
