Senior Solutions Architect, Commercial - SF

3 weeks ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
Temporal

Temporal

Temporal provides an open source durable execution platform that enables developers to create resilient applications capable of maintaining successful operations despite failures, network issues, and other disruptions.

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2019
$128M raised

Description

  • Partner with Account Executives throughout the sales cycle to qualify opportunities, run technical evaluations, and expand production usage with existing customers.
  • Lead technical conversations with developers, architects, and engineering leaders to understand customer systems, constraints, and business goals.
  • Build tailored demos and proof-of-concepts that show how Temporal solves customer problems, including AI and agentic workload orchestration.
  • Deliver enablement sessions that help customer engineering teams adopt Temporal effectively.
  • Create reusable technical assets that help accelerate deals and scale the team’s impact.
  • Educate Account Executives on Temporal fundamentals, common patterns, and opportunity qualification.
  • Manage multiple prospects and customers at the same time while prioritizing urgent and strategic work.
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Developer Success to share field insights that influence the roadmap.

Requirements

  • Must reside in San Francisco, CA.
  • Strong development background with hands-on coding experience in at least one modern language: Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, including 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 in high-volume environments.
  • Enthusiasm for AI/ML technologies and emerging use cases in agentic workflows and LLM orchestration.
  • Strong technical communication skills and ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences, including senior engineers.
  • Comfort creating structure in ambiguous or undefined situations.
  • Experience with workflow engines, event-driven architectures, or orchestration technologies such as Temporal, Cadence, or similar (preferred).
  • Background articulating the value of commercial SaaS offerings that compete with open source alternatives such as Redis, Kafka, or Databricks (preferred).
  • Contributions to developer tooling, open source projects, or technical content (preferred).
  • Certifications from major cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, or foundational AI model providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google (preferred).

Benefits

  • Estimated OTE of $200,000 - $250,000.
  • Base-salary plus variable compensation with a 70/30 split.
  • Eligibility to participate in Temporal’s equity plan.
  • Unlimited PTO, plus 12 holidays and 2 floating holidays for U.S. employees.
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for U.S. employees.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Learning and development support, including professional memberships and career enrichment funding.
  • Work-from-home and home office perks, including internet reimbursement and in-home office setup support.
  • Calm app subscription and other mental wellness benefits.

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