Staff Solutions Architect

What You'll Do

• Help 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%

What You'll Bring

• 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

Nice to Haves

• 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

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000
• This is a base salary and variable role with a 70/30 split
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan

Benefits

• 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!
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness