Senior Engineering Manager, Temporal Technologies
Cloud Enablement
$225-275k
This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
Durable execution solutions
Open for applications
Durable execution solutions
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$225-275k
This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make code fault tolerant, durable and simple.
Role
Who you are
- Strong background as a senior or staff-level software engineer before moving into engineering management
- Deep experience building and operating distributed systems with a focus on reliability, scalability, and fault tolerance
- Comfort working hands-on in the codebase, especially in complex, concurrency-heavy systems
- Demonstrated experience leading teams that deliver production-grade cloud services
- Strong understanding of replication, failover, and migration concepts in distributed systems
- Proven ability to drive execution with a bias for action, even in ambiguous or fast-moving environments
- Experience coaching engineers through technically challenging work and operational ownership
- Clear, pragmatic communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
Desirable
- Experience leading teams responsible for high availability, disaster recovery, or data migration systems
- Familiarity with Temporal, workflow engines, or event-driven systems
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes-based environments
- Prior experience managing teams that contribute to or maintain open-source infrastructure
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Cloud Enablement team, part of Temporal’s Cloud Global Services (CGS) organization
- The Cloud Enablement team is responsible for applying and extending the Temporal OSS replication stack to deliver critical Temporal Cloud capabilities, including High Availability (HA) namespaces, error detection and automated failover, and migration of workloads and namespaces between self-hosted Temporal clusters and Temporal Cloud, as well as within Temporal Cloud
- This is a deeply technical and hands-on leadership role. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will combine strong people leadership with technical ownership of complex distributed systems
- You will actively participate in system design, review code and architecture, and help unblock execution, while building and leading a team that delivers reliable, production-grade cloud features at scale
- Lead, grow, and support a team of engineers working on solving core distributed system problems
- Set clear technical direction for the team while aligning execution with CGS and company-wide priorities
- Remain hands-on and technically engaged
- Drive delivery of key Temporal Cloud capabilities, including:
- High Availability namespaces and failover automation
- Migration tooling between self-hosted and cloud Temporal clusters
- Namespace migration within Temporal Cloud for capacity management and data movement
- Establish a strong culture of operational excellence, ensuring features are observable, safe to operate, and production-ready
- Own execution and outcomes: planning, prioritization, delivery, and follow-through
- Partner closely with Product, Infrastructure, Cloud and OSS teams to deliver cohesive solutions
- Mentor and develop engineers, providing technical guidance, career growth support, and actionable feedback
- Lead incident response, postmortems, and reliability improvements for the systems owned by the team
Our take
The growing complexity of modern software systems places a strain on developers, making applications harder to plan, build, and test. While cloud-native services simplify experiences for end users, they introduce new challenges for developers, like around managing state in distributed, microservices-based architectures. Temporal Technologies addresses this problem with an MIT-licensed platform that identifies and manages applications tate, so developers can built reliable, scalable systems with more confidence.
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 in 2022 and now has a valuation of over $2.5B. Its most recent funding came in at $146M and with this, Temporal plans to move into the next chapter in its space: AI, as well as focusing on R&D, putting it in a good position within the evolving market.
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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
- Remote-First Workforce: We embrace a remote-first culture with flexible schedules, allowing you to balance work and life on your terms. Work from your home office or one of 150+ WeWork locations worldwide. If there’s no WeWork near you, we cover alternative co-working spaces. Plus, our Travel to Coworking stipend supports your commute with coverage for public transport, ride-sharing, or parking expenses.
- Flexible Time Off: Employee wellness is key to our success. We encourage you to take the time you need to maintain balance and stay refreshed — whether it's for recovery, vacation, or personal time. In addition to unlimited flexible time off, we offer 12 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays (US).
- Medical, Dental & Vision: We provide comprehensive healthcare benefits from day one, covering 100% of premiums for you and your family. You can choose between a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) or a Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan, with dental (including orthodontics) and full vision coverage. Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) are available, with employer contributions to HSA plans.
- 401(k) Retirement Plan: Planning for your future is important, and our 401(k) plan helps you build a secure financial foundation. With a range of investment options and the flexibility to contribute pre-tax or after-tax income, we make saving simple.
- Disability & Life Insurance Coverage: Our disability and life insurance ensure financial security for you and your loved ones during life’s uncertainties, from illness to injury or unexpected loss. Coverage begins on day one, with 100% of premiums covered for peace of mind.
- Paid Parental Leave: We support your family at every stage. Birth parents receive up to 20 weeks of fully paid leave, and non-birth parents up to 12 weeks. We also offer comprehensive support throughout your fertility planning journey.
- Remote Office Perks: While we provide you with the basics, enjoy a home office stipend to build up your workspace ($1,000/year), an internet stipend to ensure connectivity ($74/month), and reimbursements for work-from-home meals ($300/month).
- Health & Wellness Perks: Take advantage of a lifestyle spending account ($1,200/year), free access to the Calm app, and Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) offering personalized support, therapy, and other resources.
- Learning & Development Perks: Invest in your growth with a learning and development stipend ($1,500/year) for courses and certifications, and a professional membership stipend ($500/year) to deepen your industry involvement.
Company HQ
West Bellevue, Bellevue, WA
Leadership
Maxim Fateev
(Co-Founder & CTO)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
(Co-Founder & CEO)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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