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 Central or Eastern time zone - Atlanta preferred.
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
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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.
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.
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