Senior Product Manager, SDK & Developer Primitives

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, SDK & Developer Primitives to help define and evolve the core building blocks of the Temporal developer experience. In this role, you’ll partner closely with engineering to shape the core SDKs and programming model that enable developers to build fault-tolerant, distributed applications with confidence. You’ll be a key player in making complex systems feel intuitive and powerful through thoughtful design of primitives, abstractions, and developer-facing APIs.

What You'll Do

• Own and evolve the core programming primitives that make up the Temporal SDKs—ensuring they are consistent, composable, and aligned with the expectations of modern developers.
• Engage deeply with the developer community to understand how real teams use Temporal, where the abstractions help, and where they get in the way.
• Define product strategy and roadmap for Temporal’s SDK and programming model in close collaboration with product, engineering, and key design partners.
• Translate complex technical requirements into simple, usable, and scalable developer experiences.
• Collaborate with teams across SDKs, server, and web UI to ensure a cohesive and forward-looking developer platform.
• Represent the voice of the developer in all product decisions, ensuring the tools we build help users ship reliable systems with less cognitive overhead.

What You'll Bring

• A strong technical foundation and the ability to dive deep with engineers—experience working with developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, or infrastructure products is required.
• Hands-on experience writing code in one or more languages (e.g., Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, Rust, etc.).
• Prior experience building or contributing to developer tools, programming models, or infrastructure abstractions.
• A developer-first mindset and a passion for improving the ergonomics, usability, and clarity of complex systems.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear product requirements and prioritize trade-offs to deliver impact quickly.
• Strong understanding of Product Management fundamentals, including product lifecycle management, market research, roadmap development, prioritization, and translating customer needs into actionable product requirements
• 5+ years of experience in Product Management, or a hybrid background that includes software engineering and product work.
• Knowledge of distributed systems is a plus.

• The estimated pay range for this role is $180,000 - $230,000.
• Additionally, 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