The Staff Solutions Architect is Temporal's primary customer-facing technical leader within the New Logo team, with a focus on the Central region. 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 DoHelp prospects understand if their application is suitable for Temporal
Help customers & prospects understand the technical benefits and drawbacks of the Temporal platform and cloud service
Position Temporal successfully against alternative technologies or technical patterns
Create the conditions in customer engineering organizations that allow them to expand the number of production applications using Temporal
Partner with Account Executives to develop and execute an overall account plan
Own the relationship with customer technical decision-makers in evaluating and operating temporal applications.
Travel expected to be 25-50%
Excellent technical communication skills (presenting, whiteboarding, writing)
Comfortable discussing distributed system technologies, design decisions, and best practices
Able to construct application prototypes and follow through with design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one of Temporal’s supported languages (Java, Golang, Typescript, Python, PHP)
Conversant in topics related to operating applications in production, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations
Can offer helpful advice and good arguments to customers on architectural topics like application patterns and platform architectures
Comfortable working with at least one of the major cloud providers and using the various services commonly employed for application development & production
Serve as a technical advisor to Sales Account Executives - can help identify good/poor fit use cases, assist with scoping and sizing of opportunities, and anticipate where customer technical choices will work for or against Temporal
Likes to learn new technical topics, often directly from Engineering
Can come up to speed without any sales-specific training (i.e., from docs, videos & conversations)
Partners well with engineers working at customer organizations
Serves as a good technical coach: likes to find ways to make others look smart
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Skills Required
- Excellent technical communication skills, including presenting, whiteboarding, and writing
- Experience discussing distributed systems, design decisions, and best practices
- Ability to construct application prototypes and provide design, development, build, and deployment guidance using Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, or PHP
- Knowledge of operating production applications, including security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations
- Ability to advise customers on application patterns and platform architectures
- Comfort working with at least one major cloud provider and common application development and production services
- Ability to advise Sales Account Executives on use-case fit, opportunity scoping and sizing, and technical risks
- Willingness to learn new technical topics directly from Engineering
- Ability to become effective without sales-specific training
- Ability to partner effectively with customer engineers
- Ability to coach others and help them succeed technically
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.
