Senior Solutions Architect, Temporal Technologies

• Strong development background with hands-on coding experience in at least one modern language (Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python)
• Deep understanding of distributed systems (reliability, observability, and fault tolerance)
• Proven experience in a pre-sales, customer-facing engineering, or solutions architecture role working with technical buyers
• Exceptional time management and prioritization skills with the ability to thrive in high-volume environments
• Enthusiasm for AI/ML technologies and eagerness to learn about emerging use cases in agentic workflows and LLM orchestration
• Strong technical communication skills and ability to lead conversations with senior engineers while translating complex concepts for diverse audiences
• Comfortable creating structure where there is none

Desirable

• Temporal is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to support our Commercial Sales team in a consumption-based business where customer success drives revenue growth
• You'll work across the full sales cycle, from initial technical evaluations with new prospects through helping existing customers expand their use of Temporal in production
• The nature of our business means you'll spend significant time helping customers who've already adopted Temporal unlock more value by expanding into additional use cases, teams, and workloads
• This is a high-velocity, technically deep role. You'll partner with developers, architects, and engineering leaders at fast-moving companies to help them understand how Temporal fits into their existing architecture and prove out value through hands-on technical work
• You'll be working in a consumption model where usage grows over time, which means building strong technical relationships and staying engaged with accounts as they scale
• As an early member of a growing team, you should be comfortable with ambiguity, frequent context switching, and creating leverage through reusable assets that help the broader team move faster
• Partner with Account Executives throughout the sales cycle to qualify new opportunities, run technical evaluations, and expand production usage with existing customers
• Lead technical conversations with developers, architects, and engineering leaders to understand their systems, constraints, and business objectives
• Build tailored demos and proof-of-concepts that showcase how Temporal solves specific customer problems, including orchestration of AI and agentic workloads
• Deliver enablement sessions that help customer engineering teams adopt Temporal effectively
• Create reusable technical assets that accelerate deals and scale the team's impact
• Enable the Commercial Sales team by educating AEs on Temporal fundamentals, common patterns, and opportunity qualification
• Manage multiple prospects and customers simultaneously, prioritizing effectively across urgent needs and strategic work in a fast-moving environment
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Developer Success to surface field insights that influence the roadmap