[Hiring] Staff Developer Advocate, Enterprise @Temporal Technologies

Role Description

The Staff Developer Advocate, Enterprise is a field-facing technical practitioner embedded in our enterprise motion, focused on helping enterprise engineering teams adopt and scale Temporal successfully.

This role's primary focus is the Temporal DevDays program, traveling on-site to customer accounts to deliver hands-on technical enablement tailored to each team's architecture, use cases, and adoption stage. Beyond DevDays, this person runs enterprise office hours, delivers webinars, speaks at conferences, creates technical content, and serves as a trusted technical resource for enterprise developers in our ecosystem.

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.
• Deliver train-the-trainer sessions where appropriate.
• 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.
• Partner with the DevDays program owner, DevRel, and field teams to identify topics and formats that matter most to enterprise audiences.
• Speak at and attend industry conferences, enterprise developer events, and meetups relevant to the enterprise engineering community.
• Produce technical content — blog posts, tutorials, architectural guides, diagrams, and videos.
• Gather structured feedback from DevDays sessions, office hours, and enterprise engagements to surface product gaps, developer experience friction, and adoption blockers.

Qualifications

• 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.
• This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
• Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets.
• Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.

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!

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.
• $1,800 / 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

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