# Senior Engineering Manager - Test Systems & Tooling

**Company:** [Temporal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/temporal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $268k – $352k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Platform Infrastructure, Test Automation, Chaos Engineering, Fault Injection, Workload Replay, Performance Testing, CI/CD, Observability, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Leads and grows a team building shared test systems and tooling for production-representative, workload, performance, and failure-mode validation. Requires engineering management experience, distributed-systems expertise, and a record of delivering widely adopted internal platforms.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and grow the Test Systems & Tooling team, including hiring, coaching, and developing engineers.
- Improve production-like test environments that reflect production topology, configuration, scale, and behavior.
- Build and evolve workload replay, realistic workload generation, multi-tenant testing, load testing, and stress testing capabilities.
- Establish repeatable validation of failure modes, including dependency failures, latency injection, resource exhaustion, degraded-state recovery, and regional failures.
- Create shared testing frameworks, patterns, and tooling with visibility into test health and systemic gaps.
- Identify critical system-level scenarios, drive coverage to completion with partner teams, and integrate validation into continuous or release processes.
- Collaborate with Cloud/Infrastructure, Reliability, Release Engineering, and product teams to convert production learnings into stronger pre-production detection.
- Define and drive measurable outcomes such as adoption, confidence signals, reduced escaped issues, and faster incident-to-coverage time.

## Requirements
- Experience managing and developing a high-performing engineering team, including direct reports.
- Strong coaching, feedback, and performance management skills.
- Strong technical background building or operating reliable distributed systems or adjacent platform infrastructure.
- Ability to prioritize important failure modes and make sound technical judgments.
- Track record delivering internal platforms or tooling adopted by multiple teams.
- Ability to balance ergonomics, speed, and long-term maintainability.
- Comfort working through ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, clarifying ownership, and driving cross-team execution.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with chaos engineering, fault injection, workload replay or shadowing, performance testing, or multi-tenant test strategy.
- Experience partnering with Release Engineering or CI/CD platform teams to institutionalize pipeline validations.
- Familiarity with observability and incident response practices.
- Experience translating incident learnings into preventative test coverage.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Estimated pay range: **$268,000–$351,750**, depending on experience and location.
- Eligible to participate in the company equity plan.
- Full-time benefits include unlimited PTO, paid holidays, medical, dental, and vision coverage, disability and life insurance, a 401(k) plan, learning and development support, lifestyle spending, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and internet stipend.
- Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments.

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