Senior Technical Content Engineer, Temporal
$128-160k
Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
Open source microservice state management
Be an early applicant
Open source microservice state management
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$128-160k
Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan
201-500 employees
Company mission
To remove the complexity in developing reliable software for the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of modern software development concepts and best practices, and have experience producing high-quality written content for a highly technical audience of software engineers
- You have at least three years of professional technical writing and editing experience creating high-quality, code-heavy documentation, tutorials, or how-to guides for a highly technical audience of mid-to-senior-level software developers
- You’re a strong editor who can guide others through the outlining and writing process as well as catch inconsistencies
- You have excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- You align with our values of Reliability, Developer Experience, and First Principles Thinking
- You have experience with at least one of Temporal’s SDK languages (Go, Java, PHP, Python, TypeScript, or .NET) using industry best practices and are comfortable explaining these concepts to other developers through writing
- You can drive a project from the beginning to completion, and you can collaborate with other writers, editors, and subject-matter experts to deliver high-quality work at scale
- You’re just as comfortable integrating the work of others as you are creating your own content, and you know how to use multiple tools and sources to deliver quality content
- You’re comfortable with Git, GitHub, Markdown, and the command-line interface
- You're excited to learn new technologies and programming languages and grow your skills with a team of professional writers and educators
- Nice to Have
- You have professional software development experience building back-end applications
- You have experience with Documentation tooling including Docusaurus, Vale, and Yarn
- You've contributed to open-source software communities
What the job involves
- The Temporal Documentation team enables developers to build resilient applications with Temporal, including SDKs, self-hosted service, and Temporal Cloud products. Our documentation makes it possible for developers to build mission-critical products with Temporal at the core
- Our team is looking for a Technical Content Engineer to help us create and deliver world-class product documentation that helps developers use Temporal in their applications
- You'll use your experience as a writer and software developer to design and edit practical technical content that helps new developers understand how Temporal solves their existing problems
- You’ll collaborate with subject-matter experts and your team to plan, organize, write, edit, review, and maintain quality, consistent, contextualized, and technically accurate documentation for our SDKs, open-source service, tools, and the Temporal Cloud product
- You’ll update and refine existing content to reflect changes to the product and feedback from training sessions, surveys, and collected metrics
- You'll build strong relationships with people internally and externally. You'll collaborate with other content creators to ensure that content you develop aligns with the organization's goals and strategies, and you'll engage our community of learners through active participation in our community spaces
- You’ll make appropriate use of AI and LLMs in content creation, discovery, and consumption
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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