Temporal Technologies - Staff Product Manager, Developer Lifecycle & Tooling
Requirements
• 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time on developer tools, SDKs, CLIs, or developer infrastructure • You've defined and driven a tooling strategy, not just executed one - you made opinionated bets about how developers should work and shipped them • You've made build-vs-buy or keep-vs-deprecate decisions on developer-facing infrastructure and can articulate the tradeoffs years later • You can hold a coherent vision across multiple tools that ship on different timelines to different language ecosystems • You're comfortable operating in ambiguity - several of the biggest questions in this role don't have obvious answers yet • You write clearly, decide quickly, and change your mind when the evidence says to • You've partnered with engineering leadership, not just engineering teams - you influence technical direction, not just product requirements • You understand the difference between developer tooling and production operations, and you set that boundary clearly • You've personally built or contributed to a CLI, testing framework, CI pipeline, or developer tool • Experience with distributed systems, workflow engines, or durable execution concepts • You've worked on cross-language or cross-platform developer tools • Familiarity with the competitive landscape: Restate, Inngest, Durable Objects, Step Functions
Responsibilities
• Define and drive the strategy for developer tooling across Temporal's platform - not just ship features, but make opinionated bets on how developers should test, debug, and deploy durable applications • Own the testing story end-to-end: make the strategic call on test infrastructure direction, define canonical patterns, and drive toward tests that developers actually trust • Own the deploy safety story: determine the right approach for pre-deploy compatibility checking and drive it from concept to shipped product • Unify the CLI into one coherent tool - for humans and AI agents - and define what the CLI becomes as AI-assisted development accelerates • Collapse the getting-started experience so new developers reach a working project in minutes with production-realistic patterns • Influence cross-SDK decisions - the tools you own work across Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, and .NET. You'll drive consistency without blocking SDK teams • Define the developer-to-operator handoff - where "I'm shipping" ends and "it's being operated" begins • Partner directly with engineering leadership to shape team priorities and technical direction • Represent the developer tooling perspective in product-staff reviews and company-level planning • What you'll own • What you'll own • Testing & verification - strategic direction for how Temporal code gets tested, canonical patterns, CI integration • Deploy safety - the approach for pre-deploy compatibility checking and determinism detection • Code evolution - how developers version, migrate, and evolve long-running applications over time • CLI - the primary developer interface to Temporal, for humans and AI agents • Getting started - first-run experience, scaffolding, templates that reflect real-world patterns • Local development - dev server, project setup, and the path from zero to working project
Benefits
• The estimated salary range for this role is $185,000 - $260,000, based on experience and location. • 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 • $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships) • $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) • $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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