Jobs at Temporal Technologies

Serve as the frontline technical expert for Temporal’s developer community. Help customers deploy, scale, troubleshoot, and optimize Temporal in cloud-native environments. Responsibilities include resolving distributed-systems and infrastructure issues, developing observability and automation solutions, improving networking and reliability, and creating infrastructure best practices and diagnostic tools. The role requires direct engagement with developers, engineering teams, and product teams while influencing platform improvements and enhancing developer experience.

Own and grow regional system integrator and boutique partner relationships across the Americas. Recruit, onboard, enable, and activate partners; develop joint go-to-market plans; drive partner-sourced pipeline, co-selling, customer expansion, and successful delivery. Collaborate with Sales, Technical Services, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success while managing partner performance, executive relationships, opportunity execution, and business reviews.

Design AI-native developer experiences for building, deploying, running, and observing agentic workloads on Temporal. Own compute experiences including worker configuration, scaling, usage, and cost. Create prototypes and product vision, collaborate with Product and Engineering, extend the design system, and translate infrastructure complexity into clear interfaces across the Cloud UI, CLI, SDKs, and documentation.

Drive enterprise expansion for Temporal Cloud by developing account strategies, identifying new use cases, leading technical and commercial conversations, expanding adoption across engineering organizations, navigating procurement, and closing growth opportunities. The role partners with Solutions Architecture and Customer Success, manages forecasting and pipeline discipline, supports production adoption, and provides customer insights to product and marketing teams. Travel may reach 25% based on customer needs.

Own partner go-to-market strategy and execution across an assigned Americas sales territory. Embed with enterprise sales teams, develop repeatable partner plays, coordinate SIs, cloud partners, ISVs, and other ecosystem partners, advance complex opportunities, increase partner-sourced and influenced pipeline, and drive closed revenue. Maintain pipeline inspection, account planning, forecasting, handoffs, contribution tracking, and escalation cadences while aligning Sales, Partnerships, and external partners.

Lead end-to-end product design for Temporal’s Nexus cross-namespace connectivity experiences. Translate complex distributed-system concepts into intuitive workflows across cloud interfaces, developer tools, APIs, and documentation. Partner with Product and Engineering on discovery, interaction design, prototyping, validation, delivery, and roadmap decisions. Establish reusable design patterns, address permissions, accessibility, errors, and recovery scenarios, and elevate organizational design quality through critique and mentorship.

Design and deliver production-grade backend systems powering Temporal Cloud namespaces, audit logs, export, and data products. Architect scalable data pipelines and storage systems, establish data quality and observability standards, lead technical direction, improve reliability and incident response, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers. The role emphasizes distributed systems, operational excellence, customer experience, and resilient cloud architectures.

Build and operate Temporal Cloud’s managed compute platform, including autoscaling systems, multi-tenant execution services, cloud integrations, control and data plane boundaries, security controls, observability, and reliability practices. Lead API design, rollout, incident response, technical reviews, cross-team collaboration, and mentorship for production platform capabilities.

Design and build Temporal Cloud’s multi-cloud infrastructure platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Own platform architecture, declarative infrastructure modeling, Kubernetes reconciliation, deployment control planes, reliability, recovery, and safe production rollouts. Lead system design, roadmap development, incident response, technical reviews, coaching, hiring, and cross-team collaboration while continuing to write production code in Go or another systems language.

Build and operate backend services and data pipelines for Temporal Cloud, including namespace provisioning, audit logs, and export. Responsibilities include designing scoped features, improving scalability and reliability, managing high-volume multi-tenant data, and enhancing observability through testing, instrumentation, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks. The role involves code reviews, incident response, production debugging, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement of developer and customer experiences.

Own month-end close activities, revenue accounting, reconciliations, flux analysis, financial statement support, audit schedules, and internal controls. Optimize Rillet and develop AI-assisted accounting workflows while partnering with Finance and cross-functional teams. The role requires strong US GAAP knowledge, public accounting or high-growth technology experience, advanced spreadsheet skills, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related field.

Leads and scales Temporal’s global Deal Desk function, overseeing complex deal structures, pricing exceptions, approval workflows, CPQ governance, consumption-based pricing, international commercial frameworks, and revenue recognition considerations. Partners across Sales, Finance, Legal, and GTM Operations; drives AI-enabled workflows, reporting, playbooks, and scalable processes; and builds and develops a globally distributed Deal Desk team.

Leads Temporal’s global Field Operations organization across Sales, Technical Services, and Partners. Owns operating cadence, forecasting, pipeline visibility, territory and quota planning, capacity modeling, partner operations, TAM analysis, performance insights, reporting standards, and process automation. Manages regional and functional operations leaders, partners with executive stakeholders, and establishes AI-native practices across the field organization.

Build and maintain reusable analytical data products, canonical entities, data marts, semantic layers, and governed metrics across business domains. Establish modeling, documentation, quality, lineage, and change-management standards; improve data reliability, self-service analytics, and production governance. Partner with Data Platform, Trust, Data Science, Applied AI, and business stakeholders on orchestration, observability, access controls, feature tables, model outputs, and shared metric definitions. Remain hands-on with SQL, Python, testing, code reviews, documentation, and technical coaching.

Drive product-led growth through rigorous analysis of onboarding, activation, adoption, retention, expansion, and monetization. Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales to design experiments, analyze funnels and cohorts, identify behavioral signals, build metrics and dashboards, improve instrumentation, and translate uncertain or incomplete data into actionable product recommendations.

Lead the design and implementation of core Temporal server features across distributed systems, workflow execution, scheduling, persistence, visibility, and performance. Set technical direction, make reliability and operability improvements, partner cross-functionally, review designs and code, mentor engineers, and support open-source usability. The role requires extensive experience building production distributed systems, strong technical leadership, backend programming expertise, and operational experience with high-scale systems.

Design, implement, and operate features for Temporal’s open source distributed systems server. Solve challenges involving scheduling, task processing, workflow execution, persistence, quotas, visibility, and performance. Improve reliability through testing, observability, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and documentation. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, participate in design reviews, contribute to developer experience, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead and grow a team building shared test systems, production-like environments, workload testing capabilities, failure-mode validation, and engineering test frameworks. Drive system-level coverage, cross-team alignment, measurable improvements in pre-production confidence, and integration of validations into continuous or release pipelines. The role requires strong distributed-systems expertise, internal platform delivery experience, organizational influence, and the ability to translate production incidents into preventative test coverage.

Secure Temporal’s development pipeline, product, and customer execution environments. Partner with engineering teams on secure architecture, threat modeling, risk assessments, code and software supply-chain security, vulnerability triage, Kubernetes hardening, multi-tenant isolation, and responsible AI security. Participate in on-call rotations and help establish actionable security policies and practices across the organization.

Lead initiatives that enable production-like system testing across engineering. Build realistic test environments, workload generation and replay, fault-injection tooling, shared testing frameworks, and continuous or release validation. Partner with infrastructure, reliability, release, and product teams to convert incident learnings into durable test coverage. Mentor engineers, influence testing strategy, and improve observability, debuggability, and operational readiness.