Jobs at Temporal Technologies

Leads Temporal’s product-led growth and self-service strategy, owning onboarding, activation, adoption, retention, conversion, and expansion. Builds and mentors a high-performing product management team, establishes growth metrics and experimentation frameworks, partners with cross-functional and executive teams, and uses analytics and user research to prioritize the roadmap. The role focuses on improving developer experience and scaling adoption of Temporal Cloud, particularly among AI developers and teams.

Lead the observability engineering team and roadmap for Temporal’s internal telemetry platform and customer-facing diagnostics. Own high-cardinality telemetry ingestion, storage, querying, visualization, alerting, incident response, reliability, cost, and capacity. Hire, coach, and develop engineers; guide architecture and delivery; partner with Product, Security, Support, and customers; manage vendors; and improve operational outcomes across a multi-tenant, multi-cloud platform.

Own Temporal’s Nexus product strategy and roadmap for agent connectivity. Identify customer and market opportunities, prioritize platform capabilities, guide engineering and design, and drive discovery, execution, launches, sales enablement, and adoption metrics. The role requires strong technical depth in distributed systems, APIs, SDKs, identity, authorization, infrastructure, and developer platforms, plus close collaboration with founders, customers, engineering, sales, and marketing.

Design, build, test, document, and operate backend features for Temporal’s scalable, multi-tenant Nexus services. Responsibilities include durable execution, asynchronous processing, customer-facing APIs, distributed systems, observability, alerts, dashboards, and production runbooks. The role requires developing reliable concurrent software for remote cloud and on-premise enterprise offerings.

Own technical product marketing for Temporal’s core primitives, SDKs, APIs, Nexus, and developer tools. Build demos, sample applications, technical guidance, launch content, and positioning while testing developer workflows and identifying adoption barriers. Partner with engineering, product, documentation, developer relations, sales, solutions architecture, and customers to support launches, resolve technical blockers, influence product improvements, and explain technical tradeoffs to developer audiences.

Lead market-facing product marketing for Temporal’s technical platform. Own market priorities, positioning, messaging, GTM strategy, campaigns, activation programs, solutions and vertical marketing, sales plays, competitive intelligence, and pricing and packaging partnership. Manage senior product marketing contributors, align Sales, Demand Generation, Brand, Communications, Product, Finance, and Solutions Architecture, and turn customer and field insights into measurable pipeline, adoption, conversion, win-rate, and expansion outcomes.

Leads product marketing for Temporal’s cloud, platform architecture, core products, SDKs, developer experience, and AI capabilities. Owns positioning, launch strategy, adoption programs, customer research, ecosystem strategy, technical messaging, and cross-functional alignment with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Developer Relations. Manages senior Product Marketing Engineers, supports strategic sales opportunities, and establishes priorities across technical product portfolios while maintaining hands-on responsibility for major narratives and launches.

Design, implement, test, and operate features for Temporal’s open-source distributed workflow server. The role focuses on backend systems, task processing, scheduling, persistence, visibility, reliability, performance, observability, and developer experience. The engineer will collaborate across teams, participate in design and code reviews, improve documentation and operational tooling, and contribute to a complex open-source codebase while developing distributed systems expertise.

Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and operation of Temporal’s distributed replication stack. Drive replication protocols for high availability, cross-cluster and cross-region failover, and workload migration. Define consistency, ordering, recovery, and performance guarantees; improve scalability and reliability; debug production issues; influence technical direction across teams; mentor engineers; and contribute to Temporal OSS and cloud infrastructure.

Develop and improve Temporal Proxy, an extensible open-source solution for Temporal Cloud and customers. Implement request handling, configuration, authentication and authorization integrations, encryption hooks, observability, testing, documentation, and production debugging. Collaborate with security, infrastructure, server, and engineering teams to deliver reliable proxy capabilities and improve developer experience.

Own Temporal Nexus strategy, roadmap, execution, customer discovery, adoption, and cross-functional enablement. Drive delivery of developer experience, operator controls, connector foundations, identity, rate limits, and encryption while shaping future capabilities such as the Connector Ecosystem, Service Hub, and Agentic Communication Fabric. Partner with engineering, customers, field teams, and GTM to prioritize work, define success metrics, launch effectively, and establish Nexus as a durable connectivity layer for distributed systems and AI infrastructure.

Serve as the primary customer-facing technical leader for major accounts in the Western U.S. Guide prospects and customers through technical evaluations, distributed-system architecture, prototypes, implementation, and production adoption. Partner with Account Executives on new business and expansion opportunities, develop account plans, assess technical risks, and advise on cloud, security, reliability, performance, and cost considerations. The role requires strong technical communication, architectural expertise, experience with a major cloud provider, and 25–50% travel.

Own the external communications and social presence of Temporal’s co-founders and CEO/CTO. Ghostwrite technical essays, posts, bylines, and executive messaging; prepare founders for keynotes, customer meetings, podcasts, and media engagements; and partner with Product Marketing and Media Relations. The role requires strong developer communications experience, technical fluency, independent judgment, and frequent travel for in-person collaboration.

Deliver production-ready Temporal implementations with customer and partner engineering teams. Design reliable workflow patterns, deploy and operate Temporal Server in cloud or self-hosted environments, establish scaling and observability standards, and resolve complex technical issues. Create runbooks, templates, documentation, workshops, and training to enable independent customer operations. Provide implementation feedback to product and engineering teams while reducing escalations.

Design, build, test, document, and operate core backend features for highly scalable, multi-tenant distributed services. The role focuses on concurrency, reliability, latency, scale, multi-region failover, availability, production observability, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks. Staff Engineers also contribute to enterprise on-premise and cloud offerings, improve team velocity, and provide technical leadership across backend systems.

Leads and scales Temporal’s global technical support organization for complex developer and infrastructure issues. Establishes support operations, SLAs, triage, escalation, incident response, RCA, quality, staffing, and performance systems. Develops technical talent, reduces avoidable Engineering escalations, improves customer communications, and partners cross-functionally to convert support insights into product and documentation improvements. Represents Temporal in strategic escalations, critical incidents, enterprise support discussions, and executive readouts.

Own customer production readiness and activation for Temporal platforms, driving initial workflows into stable, scalable production. Establish reliability, observability, alerting, governance, and operational standards; resolve complex technical issues; manage technical risks, migrations, and architectural debt. Lead KPI-driven success plans, cross-functional delivery, technical reviews, training, and customer enablement while supporting adoption, renewals, and growth.

Design, build, and operate highly scalable, multi-tenant cloud storage systems for workflow data. Responsibilities include developing persistence APIs, storage abstractions, replication paths, caches, tiered storage, and observability; improving reliability and performance through SLOs, chaos testing, profiling, and incident reviews; leading technical designs, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams.

Serve as the frontline technical expert for Temporal’s developer community. Deploy and scale cloud-native infrastructure, troubleshoot distributed systems, optimize performance, improve reliability, and build automation and observability solutions. Work directly with developers and engineering teams on Kubernetes, networking, monitoring, and infrastructure best practices. Translate customer use cases into architecture recommendations and influence platform improvements through strong technical communication.

Build and operate Temporal Cloud’s managed compute platform, including autoscaling systems, multi-tenant execution services, cloud integrations, control and data plane boundaries, security controls, observability, and reliability practices. Lead API design, rollout, incident response, technical reviews, cross-team collaboration, and mentorship for production platform capabilities.