Senior Solutions Architect, Commercial - San Francisco

Temporal Technologies

1d • $200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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)

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

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!
• 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.
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
• $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)
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees