Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal Technologies is an open source programming model company on a mission to simplify code and improve developer experience. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead a team to deliver a standardized ecosystem of core engineering and AI tools, partnering with teams to accelerate AI adoption while ensuring reliability and measurable business impact.
Responsibilities
- Set direction for AI-assisted development, end-to-end: Define the engineering-wide approach for safe, effective AI-assisted workflows (tooling standards, rollout strategy, and adoption)
- Build frictionless paved paths: Identify and remove sources of friction in developer workflows; deliver a small set of deeply reliable, well-supported paved roads rather than many bespoke bypasses
- Internal AI platform strategy (build vs. buy): Own strategy and execution for internal agent runtimes and developer-facing AI systems (authoring, review, and automation workflows), including vendor evaluation and integrations
- Governance, cost, and measurement: Drive governance and cost management for AI tooling (usage measurement, guardrails, optimization) using clear metrics and frameworks (e.g., DORA/SPACE) to translate improvements into business outcomes
Skills
- A strong bias toward action, curiosity, and focus on impact
- Experience leading teams focused on developer productivity, DevEx, internal platforms, or engineering tooling
- Track record of driving adoption of new workflows and platforms across an engineering organization
- Ability to operate across boundaries and influence without direct ownership; comfort acting as an internal forward-deployed partner
- Strong coaching and feedback skills, creating an environment where engineers can grow and ship high-quality systems
- Experience evaluating and deploying AI coding tools, developer assistants, and/or LLM-based workflows and agents
- Intuition for when to adopt vs. build, and how to standardize without blocking innovation
- Strong software engineering background (backend, platform, or developer tools)
- Familiarity with modern developer workflows and the systems that support them
- Ability to engage deeply in technical discussions around system design, safety guardrails, operational readiness, and tradeoffs
- Ability to translate ambiguous needs into clear guidance and systems
- Strong empathy for builders and their workflows (including non-traditional developers)
- Experience prioritizing and communicating based on measurable impact, not just qualitative feedback
- Experience building measurement systems for tooling outcomes (adoption, reliability, cycle time, cost-to-serve, AI spend)
Benefits
- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.
- Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
- Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Company Overview
Temporal Technologies is an open-source platform that simplifies building and managing complex, long-running workflows and microservices. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://temporal.io.Company H1B Sponsorship
Temporal Technologies has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 11 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 8 in 2023, 8 in 2022, 2 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.