Open Source Community Outreach Lead

Summary

Join Temporal as our Open Source Community Outreach Lead to expand our influence within the open-source ecosystem. You will bridge the technical and human aspects of open source, viewing contributions as community growth opportunities. This role involves identifying impactful open-source projects for contributions, collaborating with internal teams to maintain example projects, enabling engineer contributions to third-party projects, and reporting on contribution growth. You will represent Temporal in community groups and partner with marketing to highlight our open-source involvement. Success is measured by increased code contributions, enhanced brand awareness, diverse engineer engagement in open source, and a respected community presence. The role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Strong experience contributing to or stewarding open source projects—whether as an engineer, advocate, or community leader
• A solid understanding of open source governance, licensing, and contribution best practices
• The ability to align contribution strategy with developer personas and marketing goals without compromising authenticity
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, especially working with engineering, product, and developer relations
• A passion for developer experience and sustainable community building

Responsibilities

• Identify high-impact open source projects (ours and others’) where contributions will build credibility, trust, and visibility with key developer audiences, including backend engineers, software architects, platform engineers, fullstack engineers, Data/AI/ML engineers, and SREs
• Collaborate with internal teams to grow and maintain a vibrant portfolio of example projects, SDKs, and integrations
• Enable and support engineers in contributing to third-party projects (especially in adjacent ecosystems where our developers live)
• Track and report on contribution growth, adoption metrics, and the impact of our presence in OSS communities
• Represent Temporal in community working groups, SIGs, and foundation initiatives
• Partner with Developer Marketing and DevRel to tell authentic stories about our OSS involvement and amplify our presence

Benefits

• 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, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $500 / Year Professional Memberships
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness