Senior Engineering Manager, Temporal
Release Engineering
$240-275k
+ Equity plan
Open source microservice state management
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Open source microservice state management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$240-275k
+ Equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience managing or leading software engineering teams, ideally in infrastructure, platform, or release engineering domains
- Strong technical background in build, release, and deployment systems at scale
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic direction with hands-on technical involvement
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across cross-functional teams
- Deep sense of ownership and commitment to engineering excellence
- Experience developing or managing distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure
- Familiarity with CI/CD, build pipelines, and release automation best practices
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containerized deployments, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Programming experience in Go or another modern language
- Experience with Temporal or other workflow orchestration systems (strong plus)
- Solid grasp of systems reliability, networking, and operational automation
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead Temporal’s Release Engineering team—the group responsible for how we build, qualify, and ship Temporal software
- This team’s mission is to deliver predictable, fully automated, and production-grade releases that embody our value of being Reliable as Gravity
- You’ll guide a team of engineers focused on automating the entire release lifecycle using Temporal itself, driving toward a vision of hands-free, scheduled releases
- This role combines technical leadership, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure every release is safe, efficient, and reliable at scale
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of release engineers responsible for the systems that power Temporal’s release and deployment processes
- Set clear goals, define success metrics, and foster a culture of accountability, reliability, and continuous learning
- Provide technical guidance and architectural direction while empowering engineers to take ownership of key initiatives
- Oversee the design and implementation of automation that orchestrates every step of the release process using Temporal
- Drive consistency, safety, and reliability across build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and release workflows
- Champion release quality and operational excellence — reducing friction, human intervention, and production risk
- Partner closely with teams across Infrastructure, Cloud, and Product Engineering to improve release readiness and velocity
- Work with leadership to shape the roadmap for Temporal’s internal delivery systems and automation strategy
- Communicate clearly across functions to ensure transparency, alignment, and trust in release operations
- Take ownership of the team’s technical and operational outcomes
- Continuously refine processes and tooling to improve efficiency, observability, and reliability
- Build and maintain documentation, standards, and reusable frameworks that scale with the company
Our take
The complexity of modern software systems puts a major strain on developers as it makes products difficult to plan, build and test. Cloud-native services simplify life for end-users, but app developers unfamiliar with the challenges of state management behind the construction of microservices. As the leading state management systems company, Temporal Technologies is an MIT licensed platform for unifying and managing application state.
The company offers an open source microservices orchestration platform, giving developers more time to code, while Temporal manages the scalability and reliability. The company’s technology is used to solve state management at an impressive list of cloud and tech companies, including Netflix, Doordash, Snap, and Google Cloud.
The company has achieved unicorn status with a valuation of over $1.5 billion following its early 2022 Series B. Temporal plans to use its latest Series "B-Prime" 2023 funding to continue growing its open-source community, and developing new features for its cloud offering.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
76% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2025
$144m
LATE VC
Jan 2024
$103m
LATE VC
Total funding: $706.3m
Company benefits
- Medical/Dental (including ortho)/Vision Benefits
- Unlimited Time-Off
- 401(k)
- AD&D, Long and Short- term disability
- Life Insurance
- HSA + Employer Contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
- Company Issued Hardware + $1,000 Annually Home Office Setup
- Remote-First
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Maxim Fateev
(CEO)Former Senior Staff Engineer at Uber. Previously worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Google, Principal SDE at Amazon Web Services, Principal RSDE at Microsoft, and was a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon .com.
Samar Abbas
(CTO)Former Staff Software Engineer at Uber. Previously worked at Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineer, and was a Software Design Engineer at Amazon.
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