Staff Product Manager, Developer Lifecycle & Tooling
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Temporal TechnologiesSoftware Development
United States - Remote OpportunityFull-TimeStaff
Salary185,000 - 260,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- PythonJavaProduct ManagementTypeScriptGo.NETDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of product management experience
- Significant time on developer tools, SDKs, CLIs, or developer infrastructure
- Defined and driven a tooling strategy, making opinionated bets
- Made build-vs-buy or keep-vs-deprecate decisions on developer-facing infrastructure
- Can hold a coherent vision across multiple tools that ship on different timelines to different language ecosystems
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity
- Writes clearly, decides quickly, and changes mind when the evidence says to
- Partnered with engineering leadership to influence technical direction
- Understands the difference between developer tooling and production operations
- Personally built or contributed to a CLI, testing framework, CI pipeline, or developer tool (nice to have)
- Experience with distributed systems, workflow engines, or durable execution concepts (nice to have)
- Worked on cross-language or cross-platform developer tools (nice to have)
- Familiarity with competitive landscape: Restate, Inngest, Durable Objects, Step Functions (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the strategy for developer tooling across Temporal's platform
- Make opinionated bets on how developers should test, debug, and deploy durable applications
- Own the testing story end-to-end, define canonical patterns, and drive toward tests developers trust
- Own the deploy safety story: determine the right approach for pre-deploy compatibility checking and drive it from concept to shipped product
- Unify the CLI into one coherent tool - for humans and AI agents - and define what the CLI becomes as AI-assisted development accelerates
- Collapse the getting-started experience so new developers reach a working project in minutes with production-realistic patterns
- Influence cross-SDK decisions to drive consistency without blocking SDK teams
- Define the developer-to-operator handoff
- Partner directly with engineering leadership to shape team priorities and technical direction
- Represent the developer tooling perspective in product-staff reviews and company-level planning
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