Senior Product Manager, Temporal
SDK & Developer Primitives
$180-230k
+ Equity Plan
Open source microservice state management
Open for applications
Open source microservice state management
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-230k
+ Equity Plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- A strong technical foundation and the ability to dive deep with engineers—experience working with developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, or infrastructure products is required
- Hands-on experience writing code in one or more languages (e.g., Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, Rust, etc.)
- Prior experience building or contributing to developer tools, programming models, or infrastructure abstractions
- A developer-first mindset and a passion for improving the ergonomics, usability, and clarity of complex systems
- Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear product requirements and prioritize trade-offs to deliver impact quickly
- Strong understanding of Product Management fundamentals, including product lifecycle management, market research, roadmap development, prioritization, and translating customer needs into actionable product requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management, or a hybrid background that includes software engineering and product work
- Knowledge of distributed systems is a plus
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager, SDK & Developer Primitives to help define and evolve the core building blocks of the Temporal developer experience
- In this role, you’ll partner closely with engineering to shape the core SDKs and programming model that enable developers to build fault-tolerant, distributed applications with confidence
- You’ll be a key player in making complex systems feel intuitive and powerful through thoughtful design of primitives, abstractions, and developer-facing APIs
- Own and evolve the core programming primitives that make up the Temporal SDKs—ensuring they are consistent, composable, and aligned with the expectations of modern developers
- Engage deeply with the developer community to understand how real teams use Temporal, where the abstractions help, and where they get in the way
- Define product strategy and roadmap for Temporal’s SDK and programming model in close collaboration with product, engineering, and key design partners
- Translate complex technical requirements into simple, usable, and scalable developer experiences
- Collaborate with teams across SDKs, server, and web UI to ensure a cohesive and forward-looking developer platform
- Represent the voice of the developer in all product decisions, ensuring the tools we build help users ship reliable systems with less cognitive overhead
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 7 rounds)
Jan 2025
$144m
LATE VC
Jan 2024
$103m
LATE VC
Total funding: $711m
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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