Summary:

The Senior Solutions Architect is Temporal's primary customer-facing technical leader within the New Logo team, with a focus on the Western 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 Do:

• Collaborate with prospects to determine if their applications fit Temporal’s platform well.
• Educate customers and prospects on the technical benefits and limitations of Temporal’s platform and cloud service.
• Position Temporal as a leading solution against competing technologies and architectural patterns.
• Foster an environment within customer engineering organizations to increase the adoption and expansion of Temporal in production environments.
• Partner closely with Account Executives to develop and execute comprehensive account plans.
• Manage and nurture relationships with technical decision-makers within customer organizations, ensuring they fully leverage Temporal’s capabilities.

What You’ll Bring:

• Reside within the Mountain or Pacific time zones.
• Exceptional technical communication skills, including presenting, whiteboarding, and writing.
• Deep understanding of distributed system technologies, design principles, and best practices.
• Proficiency in building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one or more of Temporal’s supported languages: Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, C# or PHP.
• Firm grasp of operational considerations in production environments, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
• Ability to provide insightful advice on architectural topics, including application patterns and platform architectures.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider and familiarity with commonly used application development and production services.
• Serve as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, assisting with scoping and sizing opportunities and offering guidance on technical fit and challenges.

Compensation

Summary

We are hiring a Staff Solutions Architect (Remote, based in Germany) to own and grow the DACH territory (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). This role partners closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering to help prospective and existing customers design, validate, and scale mission-critical systems on Temporal. You will work directly with engineering leaders and senior developers at high-growth and enterprise customers across DACH, helping them understand when and how to use Temporal, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring successful adoption across their organizations.

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, assisting with scoping and sizing opportunities and offering guidance on technical fit and challenges across the DACH region

• Lead customer discovery to understand architecture, constraints, and success criteria, and map those to Temporal-based solutions

• Design end-to-end reference architectures that demonstrate how Temporal fits into existing services, data stores, and infrastructure

• Build and deliver high-impact demos and technical narratives that clearly show how Temporal solves real customer pain

• Run deep technical workshops, whiteboard sessions, and proof-of-concept engagements with engineering and architecture teams

• Provide hands-on guidance on best practices for workflow and activity design, testing strategies, and operationalization of Temporal in production

• Identify and mitigate technical risks in customer projects, escalating and collaborating with Product and Engineering as needed

• Capture and communicate customer feedback and feature requests into Product, influencing roadmap and prioritization

• Contribute to reusable assets for the field, including reference architectures, example workflows, solution playbooks, and enablement content

• Represent Temporal in customer meetings, executive briefings, and at community events or conferences across the DACH market

What You’ll Bring

• Significant experience (typically several years) in customer-facing, technical pre-sales or post-sales roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Field Engineer, or equivalent

• Strong background in designing and operating distributed systems or cloud-native applications, with a deep understanding of reliability, scalability, and failure modes

• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, outcome-focused narratives for both technical and business audiences

• Proficiency in building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one or more of Temporal’s supported languages: Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, C#, Ruby, or PHP

• Practical experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and common infrastructure components including networking, messaging, observability, and CI/CD

• Proven track record partnering with sales teams on strategic accounts, including working through technical evaluations, proof-of-concept stages, and production rollouts

• Experience working with or advising large customers in DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), with comfort navigating complex stakeholder environments

• Strong communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to earn trust with senior engineers and technical leaders

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience working with Temporal or similar workflow/orchestration, event-driven, or durable execution systems

• Experience in a high-growth, developer-focused infrastructure or platform company

• German language skills are highly preferred, along with strong English communication in both written and spoken form

• Familiarity with common patterns such as event sourcing, CQRS, microservices, and data-intensive or low-latency systems

• Experience speaking at meetups, conferences, or producing technical content such as blogs, videos, or sample code for developer audiences

Compensation

The estimated pay range for this role is €165,000 – €185,000 OTE (on-target earnings), depending on experience and location within Germany.

• 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

Summary:
The Staff Solutions Architect is Temporal's primary customer-facing technical leader within Singapore, focusing on the APJ 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 Do:

• Collaborate with prospects to determine if their applications fit Temporal’s platform well.
• Educate customers and prospects on the technical benefits and limitations of Temporal’s platform and cloud service.
• Position Temporal as a leading solution against competing technologies and architectural patterns.
• Foster an environment within customer engineering organizations to increase Temporal adoption and expansion in production environments.
• Partner closely with Account Executives to develop and execute comprehensive account plans.
• Manage and nurture relationships with technical decision-makers at customer organizations to ensure they fully leverage Temporal’s capabilities.

What You’ll Bring:

• Reside in Singapore and are eligible to work without sponsorship.
• Exceptional technical communication skills, including presenting, whiteboarding, and writing.
• Deep understanding of distributed system technologies, design principles, and best practices.
• Proficiency in building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one or more of Temporal’s supported languages: Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, C# or PHP.
• Firm grasp of operational considerations in production environments, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
• Ability to provide insightful advice on architectural topics, including application patterns and platform architectures.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider and familiarity with commonly used application development and production services.
• Serve as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, assisting with scoping and sizing opportunities and offering guidance on technical fit and challenges.

Compensation:

Summary

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.

Must reside in San Francisco, CA

What You'll Do

• 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

What You'll Bring

• 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

Nice to Haves

• Experience with workflow engines, event-driven architectures, or orchestration technologies (Temporal, Cadence, or similar)
• Background articulating the value of commercial SaaS offerings that compete with open source alternatives (Redis, Kafka, Databricks, etc.)
• Contributions to developer tooling, open source projects, or technical content
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to serve as a technical bridge between customers and internal teams
• Certifications with any of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or foundational AI model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google)

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000 OTE.
• This is a base-salary, variable role with a 70/30 split.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Summary

The Staff Solutions Architect is Temporal's primary customer-facing technical leader within the New Logo team, with a focus on the Eastern 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 Do

• Collaborate with prospects to determine if their applications fit Temporal's platform well.
• Educate customers and prospects on the technical benefits and limitations of Temporal's platform and cloud service.
• Position Temporal as a leading solution against competing technologies and architectural patterns.
• Foster an environment within customer engineering organizations to increase the adoption and expansion of Temporal in production environments.
• Partner closely with Account Executives to develop and execute comprehensive account plans.
• Manage and nurture relationships with technical decision-makers within customer organizations, ensuring they fully leverage Temporal's capabilities.
• Travel 25% plus

What You'll Bring

• Reside within the Eastern or Central time zones.
• Exceptional technical communication skills, including presenting, whiteboarding, and writing.
• Deep understanding of distributed system technologies, design principles, and best practices.
• Proficiency in building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one or more of Temporal's supported languages: Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, C# or PHP.
• Firm grasp of operational considerations in production environments, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
• Ability to provide insightful advice on architectural topics, including application patterns and platform architectures.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider and familiarity with commonly used application development and production services.
• Serve as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, assisting with scoping and sizing opportunities and offering guidance on technical fit and challenges.

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