Senior Engineering Manager - Open Source Server

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 owns everything from long-term strategic efforts like Nexus to smaller improvements that make developers more productive day-to-day. Our customers are developers all over the world building mission-critical distributed applications. You’ll work closely with the SDK team and product team 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.

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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 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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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.

Nice to Have

• 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

• $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