Staff Solutions Architect, Growth - West

Staff-level technical leader who works with prospects and customers to assess fit for Temporal's workflow orchestration platform and guide architectural decisions. Balances customer education and relationship ownership with close partnership to sales, positioning Temporal against alternatives and driving production adoption. Regional focus (Western US) and deep distributed systems expertise distinguish this from typical solutions architect roles.

ROLE SUMMARY The Staff Solutions Architect is Temporal's primary customer-facing technical leader within the Growth 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 at customer organizations to ensure they fully leverage Temporal’s capabilities. WHAT YOU’LL BRING - Reside within the Western Time Zone - San Francisco and Denver Preferred - 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. Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity. Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.