Staff Developer Advocate, Enterprise

About Us

Temporal is an open source programming model designed to simplify code, enhance application reliability, and empower developers to focus on delivering features faster. Our mission is to serve as the reliable foundation for every developer's toolbox and we're building the team that will drive this vision forward. Our core values guide our actions—curiosity, drive, collaboration, genuineness, and humility—and we seek individuals who embody these principles, challenge conventional wisdom, and wish to shape our future.

Summary

The Staff Developer Advocate, Enterprise is a field-facing technical practitioner embedded within our enterprise motion. This role focuses on the Temporal DevDays program, which involves traveling to customer sites to deliver hands-on technical enablement tailored to each team's architecture, use cases, and adoption stage. Beyond DevDays, this individual runs enterprise office hours, delivers webinars, speaks at conferences, and produces technical content. They also gather feedback to address product gaps, developer experience issues, and adoption barriers.

What You'll Do

• Travel to enterprise customer sites (approximately 50% of the time) to deliver Temporal DevDays, our flagship on-site technical enablement program, tailored to each account's use cases, architecture, and adoption stage.
• Prepare and deliver hands-on labs, architectural walkthroughs, and workshop sessions that help enterprise engineering teams build confidently on Temporal.
• Collaborate with Solutions Architects, Account Executives, and Customer Success to scope and prepare for each engagement and ensure strong outcomes.
• Contribute sample applications, lab exercises, and reusable content back to the shared DevDays content library.
• Host semi-regular enterprise office hours.
• Deliver webinars on enterprise-relevant topics, including complex workflow patterns, AI-powered agentic backends, observability, scalability, and platform integrations.
• Publish technical content such as blog posts, tutorials, architectural guides, diagrams, and videos.
• Identify and speak on topics and formats that matter most to enterprise audiences.
• Participate in industry conferences, enterprise developer events, and meetups relevant to the enterprise engineering community.
• Work closely with the DevDays program owner, DevRel, and field teams to refine and expand the program.

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on distributed systems.
• Proficiency in one or more Temporal SDK languages (Python, Go, Java, TypeScript), with strong working knowledge of distributed systems, state management, and workflow execution concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical workshops, hands-on labs, or enablement sessions for senior engineering audiences.
• Experience engaging directly with enterprise engineering organizations, with an understanding of how large teams adopt and scale developer tooling.
• Experience mentoring others in a formal or informal capacity.
• Comfort with approximately 50% travel, domestic and international.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience in a Developer Relations, Solutions Architect, or Solutions Engineering role, especially in an enterprise or field-facing capacity.
• Experience delivering enterprise hackathons, on-site enablement sessions, or structured technical workshops.
• Familiarity with Temporal Cloud and advanced Temporal patterns, including AI/agentic backends, LLM orchestration, Nexus, and saga.
• Existing relationships in enterprise engineering communities or with platform and partner ecosystems.
• Track record of speaking at technical conferences or leading workshops for enterprise engineering teams.

Compensation

The estimated pay range for this role is $190,000 - $240,000. 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. 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.
• 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
• $1,200 / 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