Lead the Developer Experience team to improve APIs and tools for developers, foster collaboration, and enhance the developer community for open-source software.
Who We Are
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. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.
Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.
Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Summary
Temporal is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Developer 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, such as Nexus, 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 distributed applications. You’ll work closely with the SDK and product teams to deliver a consistent and intuitive experience.
You will lead projects like Nexus, Schedules, WorkflowUpdate, WorkflowPause 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.
See more about the OSS Team here - [new window opens]
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 such as Nexus, Schedules, WorkflowUpdate, WorkflowPause, and future workflow capabilities.
- 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.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $220,000 - $265,000
- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. Benefits
- 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!
International Benefits
- 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.
Additional Perks
- $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
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.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
Top Skills
Go
Java
Python
Typescript
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