The Solutions Architect is Temporal’s primary customer-facing technical leader within the Majors team (West). In this crucial role, you’ll work directly with prospects and customers, guiding them in understanding the suitability of their applications for Temporal’s platform and showcasing the technical advantages of our cloud service. Your contribution is vital in positioning Temporal against alternative technologies, helping customer engineering teams expand production applications using Temporal, and owning the technical relationship with key decision-makers. Your role is integral to our success.
What You’ll DoCollaborate with prospects to determine if their applications fit Temporal’s platform well.
Educate customers and prospects on the technical benefits and limitations of Temporal’s platform and cloud service.
Position Temporal as an enterprise development standard against competing technologies and architectural patterns.
Foster an environment within customer engineering organizations to increase the adoption and expansion of Temporal in production environments.
Partner closely with Account Executives to develop and execute comprehensive account plans across both new opportunities and expansion, accounting for the customer's long-term success and outcome.
Manage and nurture relationships with technical decision-makers within customer organizations, ensuring they fully leverage Temporal’s capabilities.
Create reusable technical assets, reference architectures, playbooks, and demos that provides value for other Solution Architects.
Travel expected to be 25-50%
Reside within the Pacific time zone (United States) - preference for San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle Area.
Exceptional technical communication skills across altitudes, from a staff-level engineer whiteboard to a platform-team enablement session to a VP/CTO narrative.
Deep understanding of distributed system technologies, design principles, and best practices.
Proficiency in building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one or more of Temporal’s supported languages: Java, Golang, Python, C#, TypeScript, Ruby, or Rust.
Firm grasp of operational considerations in production environments, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
Ability to provide insightful advice on architectural topics, including application patterns and platform architectures.
Experience with at least one major cloud provider and familiarity with commonly used application development and production services.
Ability to serve as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, assisting with scoping and sizing opportunities and offering guidance on technical fit and challenges.
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Skills Required
- Reside within the Pacific time zone in the United States
- Exceptional technical communication skills, including presenting, whiteboarding, and writing
- Deep understanding of distributed system technologies, design principles, and best practices
- Proficiency building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance using Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, C#, or PHP
- Strong understanding of production operational considerations, including security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations
- Ability to guide customers through complex architectural decisions, application patterns, and platform design
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider and commonly used enterprise application and infrastructure services
- Experience serving as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives
- Ability to scope opportunities, identify technical risks, and navigate complex evaluations
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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