Principal Developer Advocate, AI

About Us

Temporal is an open source programming model designed to simplify code, enhance application reliability, and empower developers to deliver features faster. Our mission is to serve as the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox and we are assembling a team dedicated to achieving this goal. Our core values guide our actions, emphasizing curiosity, drive, collaboration, genuineness, and humility. We seek individuals who share these values, who challenge conventional wisdom, and who wish to shape our future. If you are passionate about improving the developer experience, building cutting-edge open-source software, and fostering communities, we invite you to join our journey.

What You’ll Do

• Represent Temporal at industry conferences, meetups, and workshops, delivering compelling talks on reliability, state, and orchestration in agentic systems.
• Create influential, high-quality content for AI engineers and backend developers (blogs, tutorials, guides, talks, and videos) that demonstrates Temporal's essential role in reliable AI systems.
• Forge strong ties with AI framework maintainers, open-source communities, and ecosystem partners to strengthen Temporal's position as critical infrastructure for AI.
• Act as a key community voice, gathering feedback from AI engineers and channeling it back to Product and Engineering to shape the roadmap and improve Temporal's developer experience.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales to align content and engagement with new releases and our go-to-market strategy in the AI space.
• Informally mentor peers and raise the bar for your team's collective AI engineering skills.

What You’ll Bring

• 8+ years as a software engineer, with a primary focus on AI engineering and producing AI systems in production.
• Visible presence in the AI engineering community through platforms such as a popular blog, YouTube channel, podcast, widely used open-source project, social media following, or frequent conference speaking.
• A track record of compelling technical talks and writing that establishes your credibility in the eyes of aspiring AI engineers.
• Hands-on experience with production AI: LLMs and agents, retrieval-augmented generation, function calling, evaluation and observability, and inference in real systems, including familiarity with AI agent frameworks and major model-provider APIs.
• You are likely proficient in Python and/or TypeScript; polyglots who quickly learn new languages are welcome.
• Curiosity that keeps you updated on rapidly evolving AI research and tooling.

Nice to Have

• A strong public platform that makes you recognizable online or at conferences.
• Experience carrying the pager for production AI systems.
• Experience building or contributing to AI agent frameworks or toolkits.
• Familiarity with Temporal; experience building AI products or features using Temporal is a plus.
• Prior experience in a Developer Relations or Developer Advocacy role.

Compensation

The estimated pay range for this role is $260,000 - $325,000. This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan. Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employee benefits and perks include 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, and additional perks for learning & development, lifestyle spending, in-home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home 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.
• Additional perks for international employees include learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you), 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
• $1,200 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
• $1,000 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness