We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Temporal’s Release Engineering team—the group responsible for how we build, qualify, and ship Temporal software. This team’s mission is to deliver predictable, fully automated, and production-grade releases that embody our value of being Reliable as Gravity. You’ll guide a team of engineers focused on automating the entire release lifecycle using Temporal itself, driving toward a vision of hands-free, scheduled releases. This role combines technical leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure every release is safe, efficient, and reliable at scale.
What You’ll DoLead & Empower
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of release engineers responsible for the systems that power Temporal’s release and deployment processes.
- Set clear goals, define success metrics, and foster a culture of accountability, reliability, and continuous learning.
- Provide technical guidance and architectural direction while empowering engineers to take ownership of key initiatives.
Deliver & Improve
- Oversee the design and implementation of automation that orchestrates every step of the release process using Temporal.
- Drive consistency, safety, and reliability across build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and release workflows.
- Champion release quality and operational excellence — reducing friction, human intervention, and production risk.
Collaborate & Align
- Partner closely with teams across Infrastructure, Cloud, and Product Engineering to improve release readiness and velocity.
- Work with leadership to shape the roadmap for Temporal’s internal delivery systems and automation strategy.
- Communicate clearly across functions to ensure transparency, alignment, and trust in release operations.
Own & Evolve
- Take ownership of the team’s technical and operational outcomes.
- Continuously refine processes and tooling to improve efficiency, observability, and reliability.
- Build and maintain documentation, standards, and reusable frameworks that scale with the company.
- Proven experience managing or leading software engineering teams, ideally in infrastructure, platform, or release engineering domains.
- Strong technical background in build, release, and deployment systems at scale.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic direction with hands-on technical involvement.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams.
- Deep sense of ownership and commitment to engineering excellence.
- Experience developing or managing distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, build pipelines, and release automation best practices.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containerized deployments, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar).
- Programming experience in Go or another modern language.
- Experience with Temporal or other workflow orchestration systems (strong plus).
- Solid grasp of systems reliability, networking, and operational automation.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $240,000 - $275,000 depending location and experience.
- Additionally, 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.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- $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
Top Skills
What We Do
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.
