Staff Product Manager, Developer Lifecycle & Tooling

Temporal Technologies

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About The Position

Temporal is the durable execution platform that lets developers write code that survives any failure. Thousands of companies run mission-critical applications on Temporal — from payment processing to AI agent orchestration. We're hiring a Staff Product Manager to own the developer lifecycle: the tools and experiences developers use to adopt Temporal, verify their code, and ship with confidence. You'll own the CLI, testing framework, deploy safety tooling, local development environment, and getting-started experience. This is a high-ambiguity role. You'll define Temporal's testing strategy (do we own test servers or move to testcontainers?), deploy safety approach (replay-based, static analysis, or linting - and where does it run?), and the developer tooling vision that ties it all together. Several of these are open product questions with no obvious answer.

Requirements

8+ years of product management experience, with significant time on developer tools, SDKs, CLIs, or developer infrastructure
You've defined and driven a tooling strategy, not just executed one - you made opinionated bets about how developers should work and shipped them
You've made build-vs-buy or keep-vs-deprecate decisions on developer-facing infrastructure and can articulate the tradeoffs years later
You can hold a coherent vision across multiple tools that ship on different timelines to different language ecosystems
You're comfortable operating in ambiguity - several of the biggest questions in this role don't have obvious answers yet
You write clearly, decide quickly, and change your mind when the evidence says to
You've partnered with engineering leadership, not just engineering teams - you influence technical direction, not just product requirements
You understand the difference between developer tooling and production operations, and you set that boundary clearly

Nice To Haves

You've personally built or contributed to a CLI, testing framework, CI pipeline, or developer tool
Experience with distributed systems, workflow engines, or durable execution concepts
You've worked on cross-language or cross-platform developer tools
Familiarity with the competitive landscape: Restate, Inngest, Durable Objects, Step Functions

Responsibilities

Define and drive the strategy for developer tooling across Temporal's platform - not just ship features, but make opinionated bets on how developers should test, debug, and deploy durable applications
Own the testing story end-to-end: make the strategic call on test infrastructure direction, define canonical patterns, and drive toward tests that developers actually 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 - the tools you own work across Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, and .NET. You'll drive consistency without blocking SDK teams
Define the developer-to-operator handoff - where "I'm shipping" ends and "it's being operated" begins
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

Benefits

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
Learning & Development
Lifestyle Spending
In-Home Office Setup
Professional Memberships
WFH Meals
Internet Stipend
Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness