Staff Solutions Architect, Growth (SaaS)

TL;DR

Staff Solutions Architect (SaaS): Collaborates with prospects to determine the suitability of applications for Temporal's platform, positioning it against competing technologies, and nurturing relationships with technical decision-makers. Focus on guiding customer engineering teams in expanding production applications using Temporal and showcasing the technical advantages of the cloud service.

Location: High preference for residing within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Salary: $250,000 - $300,000

Company

Temporal 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.

What you will do

• Collaborate with prospects to determine if their applications fit Temporal's platform well.
• Educate customers and prospects on the technical benefits and limitations of Temporal's platform and cloud service.
• Position Temporal as a leading solution against competing technologies and architectural patterns.
• Foster an environment within customer engineering organizations to increase the adoption and expansion of Temporal in production environments.
• Partner closely with Account Executives to develop and execute comprehensive account plans.
• Manage and nurture relationships with technical decision-makers within customer organizations, ensuring they fully leverage Temporal's capabilities.

Requirements

• High preference for residing within the San Francisco Bay 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.
• Firm grasp of operational considerations in production environments, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider and familiarity with commonly used application development and production services.

Nice to have

• Likes to learn new technical topics, often directly from Engineering
• Can come up to speed without any sales-specific training (i.e., from docs, videos & conversations)
• Partners well with engineers working at customer organizations
• Serves as a good technical coach: likes to find ways to make others look smart

Culture & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
• 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
• AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance
• Empower 401K Plan
• Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!