The Staff Developer Advocate, AI at Temporal Technologies will be the voice and face of our developer community in the Bay Area. This role involves producing high-quality technical content, engaging with developers, and gathering feedback for product development. The successful candidate will drive developer engagement and contribute to the growth of our open-source community.
What You’ll Do:
- Advocate for the Developer: Partner with Product and Engineering to raise issues encountered by our customers and community, to influence product development and improve developer experience.
- Build Apps: Architect and develop sample applications that developers can use and explore to understand Temporal’s place in the developer ecosystem.
- Event Participation: Support and participate in local developer events and conferences, especially in San Francisco, with occasional travel.
- Create Technical Content: Produce high-quality technical content such as blog posts, tutorials, guides, diagrams, and videos targeted at our core audiences.
- Collaborate with Teams: Work closely with developer relations, product, engineering and marketing teams to ensure consistent, high-quality content and community engagement.
- Community Engagement: Actively engage with the local developer community and represent Temporal through in-person events, as well as digital channels such as our Community Slack, forums, and social media.
What You’ll Bring:
- Residing in the San Francisco Bay area is strongly preferred
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 7+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on distributed systems.
- Mentorship Skills: Experience mentoring others in a formal capacity, volunteer or otherwise.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in one or more of our SDK languages, distributed systems, state management, and workflow execution.
Bonus Points:
- Experience in a developer advocate or relations role; building and engaging developer communities is a plus.
- Strong existing local network of developers. We will prioritize candidates with an existing track record of speaking and engaging in their local developer communities.
- The estimated pay range for this role is $170,000 - $215,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- 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.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
- $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
Top Skills
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.
