Senior Engineering Manager - Open Source ServerUnited States - Remote Opportunity

Senior Engineering Manager - Open Source Server

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 external developers 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.

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 testingdeveloper 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

Nice to Have

Compensation

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

International Benefits

Additional Perks

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.

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