Staff Solutions Architect, Majors

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with prospects to determine whether their applications fit Temporal’s platform.
• 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.
• Increase adoption and expansion of Temporal in customer production environments.
• Partner with Account Executives on account plans for new opportunities and expansions.
• Manage relationships with technical decision-makers and help customers fully leverage Temporal.
• Create reusable technical assets, reference architectures, playbooks, and demos for Solutions Architects.
• Travel 25–50%.

Requirements

• Reside within the Eastern time zone in the United States.
• Exceptional technical communication skills, from staff-level engineering discussions to executive narratives.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, design principles, and best practices.
• Proficiency building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance in one or more supported languages: Java, Golang, Python, C#, TypeScript, Ruby, or Rust.
• Strong understanding of production operations, including security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
• Ability to advise on application patterns and platform architectures.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider and commonly used application development and production services.
• Ability to advise Sales Account Executives on opportunity scoping, sizing, technical fit, and challenges.