Senior Solutions Architect, Temporal

• Central, Mountain, or Pacific time zones preferred. Temporal is a fully remote company
• Strong development background with hands-on coding experience - you'll be working primarily with developer audiences
• Exceptional time management and prioritization skills with ability to thrive in high-volume environments requiring frequent context switching
• Enthusiasm for AI/ML technologies and proficiency with AI/LLM tools, with eagerness to learn about emerging use cases
• Excellent technical communication skills and ability to construct application prototypes using Temporal's supported languages (Java, Go, Typescript, or Python)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, production operations (security, reliability, performance), and cloud provider services
• Ability to provide architectural guidance on application patterns and platform architectures, and serve as a technical advisor to sales counterparts

Desirable

• The Senior Solutions Architect is Temporal's primary customer-facing technical leader within the Commercial sales team
• In this crucial role, you'll work directly with a high-volume of mid-market prospects and customers, showcasing the value and benefits of Temporal Cloud
• You'll highlight Temporal's position as the essential orchestration layer for modern applications—including the rapidly growing AI and agentic workflow space—helping customer engineering teams understand and expand their use of Temporal
• Your role spans the entire customer lifecycle from initial technical evaluation through post-sales expansion, making you integral to our land-and-expand success
• Navigate high-volume, fast-paced sales cycles while managing multiple prospects and customers simultaneously
• Help prospects evaluate Temporal Cloud, positioning it successfully against alternative technologies (and self-hosted Temporal) with a growing emphasis on AI/ML and agentic use cases
• Support both pre-sales technical evaluation and post-sales expansion opportunities in our consumption-based business model
• Partner with Account Executives to develop account plans, providing technical guidance on opportunity sizing and use case fit assessment
• Own relationships with customer Technical Decision makers and create conditions for expanding production applications using Temporal
• Prioritize effectively in a fast-moving environment, distinguishing between urgent and important customer needs