Senior Staff Technical Product Marketing Engineer, Primitives

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Washington.

📋 Description

• Gain an in-depth understanding of Temporal’s fundamental primitives, SDKs, APIs, Nexus, and developer tools.

• Oversee the developer journey from the initial code sample to testing, debugging, deployment, versioning, and production use.

• Recognize barriers to adoption and identify sources of developer confusion.

• Create demos, sample applications, reference implementations, tutorials, technical briefs, launch content, and field presentations.

• Manage the positioning and messaging for Core, SDK, API, Nexus, and developer-experience initiatives.

• Collaborate with Core, SDK, and developer-tool engineers to comprehend the roadmap and prepare for launches.

• Take ownership of the technical narrative for priority developer-tool integrations.

• Evaluate documentation, onboarding, local development, testing, debugging, replay, and upgrade workflows.

• Offer recommendations for product, engineering, developer relations, and documentation.

• Assist with priority deals and partner discussions by addressing technical inquiries and eliminating adoption hurdles.

• Conduct customer interviews for Core and SDK case studies.

• Explore additional developer inquiries such as AI application patterns, integrations, competitive claims, and emerging use cases.

• Assess success through qualified signups, first-value activation, developer adoption, resolved technical obstacles, stage progression, influenced ARR, and supported-deal win rates.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant experience in software engineering, solutions architecture, customer engineering, developer relations, technical product marketing, or another hands-on technical role.

• Familiarity with building or supporting developer-facing platforms, SDKs, APIs, frameworks, or infrastructure products.

• Strong expertise in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, or another backend application language.

• Capability to swiftly learn unfamiliar SDKs.

• Practical understanding of APIs, SDKs, distributed systems, failure handling, state management, testing, deployment, and observability.

• Ability to compare methodologies, suggest patterns, develop reference implementations, and articulate trade-offs.

• Exceptional technical writing skills.

• Proficient in leading technical discussions with developers, Sales and Solutions Architecture, customers, and senior Product and Engineering leaders.

• Independent decision-making skills and the capacity to define and execute work effectively.

• Experience with event-driven systems, workflow engines, data infrastructure, or distributed applications is a plus.

• Experience in building SDKs, CLIs, testing tools, integrations, or open-source developer tools is advantageous.

• Experience in supporting developer communities across various programming languages is a bonus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity

• Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.

• AI interview recording/transcription, with the option to opt out without impacting candidacy.