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The Staff Developer Advocate will drive the adoption of Temporal among enterprise developers by creating tools, demos, and content, addressing their challenges and ensuring seamless integration.
About Us
SummaryTemporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Staff Developer Advocate, Developer Tooling & Adoption plays a strategic role in driving the growth and adoption of Temporal among enterprise developers and ensuring their success. This role focuses on architecting and building high-quality, enterprise-grade tools, prescriptive demos, and production-ready reference architectures that make it easier to adopt Temporal at scale in complex production environments. You’ll combine strong engineering and solutions-architecture skills with an advocate’s empathy, solving real developer challenges, simplifying distributed-system adoption, and ensuring that the path from POC to production is prescriptive and seamless. This role sits at the intersection of Engineering, Developer Relations, and Solutions Architects. You will develop reusable technical content and assets, analyze enterprise requirements to shape developer experience strategy, and collaborate across functions to ensure consistent, high-quality integrations and guidance.
What You’ll Do:
- Architect and develop interactive, enterprise-scenario-based tutorials and solution accelerators that accelerate developer understanding of Temporal, delivering immediate clarity for developers that translate to faster enterprise adoption.
- Produce high-quality tools, demos and technical content, targeted at developers facing challenges in resilience, distributed systems, service orchestration, and beyond. Your work will involve developing tools, producing demos, blog posts, tutorials, guides, diagrams and videos, directly addressing developers' pain points and queries.
- Partner with the Go-to-Market (GTM) team to pioneer Temporal's entry into new verticals by analyzing their unique distributed systems challenges and architect the foundational, prescriptive solutions that will drive industry-wide adoption.
- Use data to inform our tooling and content efforts, helping evaluate what’s working well and iterating as we learn.
- Collaborate with engineering, marketing, and sales to ensure consistent, high-quality tooling, content, and messaging.
- Engage with the developer community through Slack, forums, social media, and international conferences, acting as a senior technical face and voice for Temporal.
- Help gather structured customer feedback for product and engineering teams based on deep customer and community interactions, helping to influence product development.
What You’ll Bring
- Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 10+ years as a Senior or Staff Software Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Developer Advocate with a strong understanding of developer tooling, complex distributed systems, state management, and workflow execution
- Empathy for the problems faced by developers and motivated by helping others succeed.
- Ability to partner effectively with cross-functional teams and represent technical work to both internal and external audiences.
- Self-motivated, with a creative and analytical mindset.
- Proficiency in one or more of our SDK languages, distributed systems, state management, and workflow execution.
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $170,000 - $215,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. Benefits
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
International Benefits
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Additional Perks
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $500 / Year Professional Memberships
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
Top Skills
Distributed Systems
Sdk
State Management
Workflow Execution
Temporal Technologies Bellevue, Washington, USA Office
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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