Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal is an open source software company focused on making applications more reliable and improving the developer experience. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the Test Systems & Tooling team, developing shared systems, environments, and tooling for production-like, workload, and failure-mode testing. The role also drives cross-team alignment, system-level coverage, and measurable improvements in pre-production confidence.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Test Systems & Tooling team: Hire, coach, and develop engineers building shared testing capabilities used across Engineering
- Make production-like testing practical: Improve the ability for engineers to create test environments that resemble production topology, configuration, scale, and behavior—so reproducing issues and validating changes is faster and more reliable
- Enable production-representative workload testing: Build or evolve capabilities such as workload replay, realistic workload generation, multi-tenant testing, load testing, and stress testing to surface behaviors that only emerge at scale
- Drive failure-mode validation: Establish repeatable ways to test Temporal through real failure conditions (e.g., dependency failures, latency injection, resource exhaustion, degraded-state recovery, and regional failure scenarios)
- Create shared frameworks and guidance: Provide opinionated testing frameworks, patterns, and tooling that make it easier for product teams to write high-quality tests consistently, with visibility into test health and systemic gaps
- Own system-level coverage outcomes: Identify critical system-level scenarios that need explicit coverage, drive them to completion (often through partner teams), and ensure they’re integrated into continuous and/or release validation
- Collaborate across org boundaries: Partner closely with Cloud/Infrastructure, Reliability, Release Engineering, and product teams to turn production learnings into stronger pre-production detection
Skills
- Experience managing and developing a high-performing engineering team (including direct reports), with strong coaching, feedback, and performance management skills
- Strong technical background building or operating **reliable distributed systems** (or adjacent platform infrastructure) and the judgment to prioritize the failure modes that matter most
- Track record delivering internal platforms/tooling adopted by many teams—balancing ergonomics, speed, and long-term maintainability
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces where success depends on aligning stakeholders, clarifying ownership, and driving execution across multiple teams
- Ability to define and drive measurable outcomes (adoption, confidence signals, reduced escaped issues, faster incident-to-coverage time), not just ship tooling
- Familiarity with observability and incident response practices, and translating incident learnings into preventative test coverage
- Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together
- Experience with large-scale testing practices: chaos engineering, fault injection, workload replay/shadowing, performance testing, or multi-tenant test strategy
- Experience partnering with Release Engineering or CI/CD platform teams to institutionalize validations in pipelines
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, Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
- Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
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