USA remote
Senior Staff Technical Product Marketing Engineer, Primitives
About this role
ROLE SUMMARY Developers experience Temporal through its core programming model, SDKs, APIs, and tools. Those surfaces determine how quickly someone understands the product, whether they can build with it confidently, and whether they can move an application into production. They also shape how customers understand newer capabilities as Nexus and Standalone Activities. We are looking for a Senior Staff Product Marketing Engineer who can work on the product, find where developers struggle, and explain Temporal without hiding the technical details.
You will work directly with Core and SDK engineers, developers, customers, Developer Relations, Documentation, Sales, and Solutions Architecture. You will turn what you learn into positioning, launch plans, sample applications, demos, technical guidance, and product recommendations. Your primary charter is Core Primitives and SDKs. You may also investigate an AI pattern, integration, or other developer question when it depends on Temporal's programming model or developer experience.
WHAT YOU WILL DO - Develop a detailed understanding of Temporal's core primitives, SDKs, APIs, Nexus, and developer tools. Know how the experience differs across languages and where those differences matter. - Follow the developer journey from the first code sample through testing, debugging, deployment, versioning, and production use. Identify the points that slow adoption or create confusion. - Build demos, sample applications, reference implementations, tutorials, technical briefs, launch content, and field presentations.
Use working code to support product claims. - Own positioning and messaging for assigned Core, SDK, API, Nexus, and developer experience initiatives with the Core Products Director. Define the audience, problem, value, evidence, and adoption path. - Work directly with Core, SDK, and developer tooling engineers to understand the roadmap and prepare for launches before the work is ready to announce. - Own the technical story for priority developer-tool integrations.
Test how Temporal works with the frameworks, libraries, and tools developers already use, then create the examples and guidance needed to support adoption. - Test documentation, onboarding, local development, testing, debugging, replay, and upgrade workflows. Give Product, Engineering, Developer Relations, and Documentation specific recommendations based on what you find. - Support selected priority deals and partner conversations when hands-on work can answer a developer question, prove a claim, or remove an adoption blocker.