Senior Solutions Architect, Majors (West)

Role Summary

The Solutions Architect is Temporal’s primary customer-facing technical leader within the Majors team (West). In this role, you will work directly with prospects and customers, guiding teams through technical evaluation, architecture, and implementation considerations, and helping them successfully adopt and expand production usage of Temporal over time.

You’ll partner closely with Account Executives to support both land and expand motions, owning key technical relationships and helping position Temporal against alternative technologies and architectural patterns.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

• Strong grasp of operational considerations in production environments, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.

• Proven ability to guide customers through complex architectural decisions, including application patterns and platform design.

• Partner closely with Account Executives and Platform Architects to develop and execute comprehensive account plans across both new opportunities and expansion.

• Experience with at least one major cloud provider and the application and infrastructure services commonly used in enterprise production environments.

• Experience serving as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, helping scope opportunities, identify technical risks, and navigate complex evaluations.

• Travel expected to be 25-50%

What You’ll Bring

• Reside within the Pacific time zone (United States) - preference for San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle Area.

• 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.

• Strong grasp of operational considerations in production environments, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.

• Ability to provide clear guidance 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.

• Ability to serve as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, helping scope opportunities, identify technical risks, and navigate complex evaluations.

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.

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