Senior Technical Curriculum Developer

We are expanding our team! You can be anywhere in the U.S. and in the Pacific time zone outside of the U.S., and in other various countries as noted for specified positions.

If you are looking to be a part of an amazing team, have a passion for open-source software, and building a strong developer community, then come join us! Temporal helps developers focus on the important things, like writing business logic, and spend less time worrying about the underlying infrastructure. We have a great open-source community filled with awesome developers (who are also our users!) that provide us with real-time feedback and contributions. Temporal is also backed by top VC firms and has a team of professionals from other successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. We always work toward building the best community, and if these things interest you too, we’d love to hear from you.

The Temporal Developer Education team helps developers build resilient applications using Temporal's SDKs through tutorials, courses, and workshops delivered through a variety of teaching methods. Our content makes it possible for developers to build mission-critical products with Temporal at the core.

Our team is looking for a Senior Technical Curriculum Developer to help us create and deliver world-class learning materials, including tutorials, documentation, courses, and example applications, for a highly technical audience of software engineers.

The ideal candidate will have experience building production-quality software using industry best practices, and have experience teaching and developing curriculum for highly-technical audiences. If you're a software developer with a passion for teaching, you'll find yourself right at home in this role.

What you'll be doing
- You'll use your experience as a software developer and educator to design and deliver practical, hands-on courses, tutorials, - documentation, workshops, certifications, and example applications that empower software developers to use Temporal in their applications.
- You’ll create, edit, integrate, and curate content in multiple formats (including written, video, animations, audio, and example code repositories) that focuses on active learning and meets the needs of a diverse learner community.
- You'll collaborate with subject matter experts to identify skills, knowledge, and attitudes required for success with Temporal, and develop real-world assessments that ensure learners can demonstrate their proficiency.
- You'll build strong relationships with people internally and externally. You'll collaborate with other content creators to ensure curriculum development and instructional design align with the organization's goals and strategies, and you'll engage our community of learners through instruction and active participation in our community spaces.
- You’ll maintain and refine existing content to reflect changes to the product and feedback from training sessions, surveys, and collected metrics.
- You'll identify, research, and recommend new tools or instructional design strategies to address skills, knowledge gaps, and future needs.

What you'll bring to the role
- You've developed modern production back-end applications with Go, TypeScript, Java, or Python using industry best practices.
- You have experience with cloud computing, distributed systems, or microservices and are comfortable explaining these concepts to senior software developers.
- You've designed, delivered, and refined practical, hands-on courses or content on software development topics aimed at senior-level software developers.
- You've created content using a variety of formats to reach a diverse audience of learners, and know when to use which format appropriately.
- You’re just as comfortable integrating the work of others as you are creating your own content, and you know how to use multiple tools and sources to deliver quality content.
- You've facilitated workshops or classes in online, blended, or in-person environments.
- You're comfortable and excited to learn new technologies and programming languages.
- You have excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- You align with our values of Reliability, Developer Experience, and First Principles Thinking.

Bonuses
- You have experience with Performance-Based Learning or Backwards Design.
- You understand adult learning theory and how to motivate learners at various skill levels.
- You've contributed to open-source software communities.
- You’re excited to see how generative AI and LLMs play into the future of content creation, discovery, and consumption.



$150,000 - $180,000 a year
The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience. Temporal is growing, and we welcome great people to enable our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future.

Benefits
- 100% coverage of premiums for you and your dependents for Medical, dental/ortho, and vision benefits
- AD&D, long- and short-term disability, and life insurance (both standard and supplemental)
- 401K plan
- Unlimited PTO

Additional Perks
- Up to 20 weeks of parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks of leave for non-birth parents, including adoptive and foster parents
- $1,500/year Learning, career development
- $1,200/year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000/year In-home office setup (This is in addition to what Temporal will issue you, which is a laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable as well at no cost to you)
- $500/year Professional Memberships
- $300/month Work From Home Meals
- $74/month reimbursement for Internet added to your paycheck once a month
- Subscription to the Calm App to promote mental health & wellness
- An "All Access" pass to a WeWork location

What team members are doing at Temporal
Collaborating across teams to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, engage with and support our user community, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

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