Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Temporal is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Test Systems & Tooling team. The role is responsible for building shared testing systems, environments, and tooling that enable production-like and adverse-condition validation, while driving 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
- 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
- Familiarity with observability and incident response practices, and translating incident learnings into preventative test coverage
Benefits
- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
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