Senior Platform Architect

Posted 17 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in London, England, GBR
In-Office or Remote
Senior level
Software
The Role
Own customer production readiness and activation for Temporal deployments, establish reliability and operational standards, resolve complex technical issues, and lead KPI-driven technical programs. Guide customers through architecture, migrations, scaling, observability, upgrades, and production certification while enabling developers and architects through training and documentation. Partner cross-functionally to drive adoption, renewals, and growth.
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Role Summary

Join our Technical Services team as a Senior Platform Architect and drive transformational outcomes with Temporal. You’ll be the accountable technical owner from purchase to stable production, turning complex challenges into scalable, repeatable solutions. Shape delivery patterns, operational standards, and enablement strategies that accelerate customer success and create lasting competitive advantage across teams and environments.

What You'll Do

Own Production Readiness and Activation

  • Act as the single owner of customers' scale-proof production readiness

  • Drive the first production workflow and reduce time-to-production

  • Establish guardrails and best practices for reliability, failure handling, scaling, and upgrades

  • Make developers Temporal SDK experts, make customer platform architects Temporal Server and SDK best practice experts

  • Set up alerting to catch issues before customers do

  • Work on your assigned customers' most difficult tickets and problems

  • Identify and remove activation blockers early before they become escalations

  • Optimize costs and performance with customers

Run the Customer's Technical Program

  • Build and execute a KPI-driven success plan tied to production outcomes

  • Define standards for patterns, training, governance, and operational readiness

  • Lead cross-functional coordination of Professional Services, Support, Partners, and internal teams, leveraging project management to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery

  • Proactively manage technical risk, migrations, and architectural debt

Ensure Long-Term Technical Health

  • Set and validate reliability, observability, and operational standards

  • Monitor health signals and intervene before the customer knows they're happening

  • Lead technical reviews, readiness checkpoints, and maturity assessments

  • Certify teams and workloads as production-ready

Drive Adoption Through Production Success

  • Surface growth signals based on usage, maturity, and confidence

  • Partner with customers, Growth AEs and Solution Architects to unlock new workloads

  • Translate production success into clear technical narratives for renewal and growth

  • Advocate for customer needs and real-world patterns internally

What You'll Bring
  • You must reside in the United Kingdom, with a preference for London

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering or solutions engineering experience

  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and reliability engineering principles

  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python

  • Experience building, deploying, and operating production systems at scale

  • Demonstrated ability to debug complex technical issues and guide customers through resolution

  • Strong customer-facing skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences

  • Experience creating technical documentation, runbooks, and training materials

  • Self-motivated with the ability to work independently while collaborating across teams

  • Willingness to travel occasionally for customer engagements and team events

Nice to Haves
  • Prior experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration platforms

  • Experience with observability tools and practices for distributed systems

  • Background in professional services, technical consulting, or solutions engineering roles

  • Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure-as-code tools

  • Contributions to open source projects or developer communities

  • Experience designing and delivering technical training or workshops

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.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

Skills Required

  • Must reside in the United Kingdom, preferably London
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering or solutions engineering experience
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and reliability engineering principles
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python
  • Experience building, deploying, and operating production systems at scale
  • Ability to debug complex technical issues and guide customers through resolution
  • Strong customer-facing communication skills with diverse audiences
  • Experience creating technical documentation, runbooks, and training materials
  • Ability to work independently and collaborate across teams
  • Willingness to travel occasionally for customer engagements and team events
  • Experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration platforms
  • Experience with observability tools and practices for distributed systems
  • Background in professional services, technical consulting, or solutions engineering
  • Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure-as-code tools
  • Contributions to open source projects or developer communities
  • Experience designing and delivering technical training or workshops

Temporal Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Temporal Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Temporal Technologies.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time off includes unlimited PTO alongside 12 standard holidays and 2 floating holidays. Feedback suggests this structure supports rest and recharge across teams.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.

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The Company
HQ: Bellevue, Washington
501 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.

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