Senior Solutions Architect, Commercial

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect, Commercial to drive technical engagement and revenue growth across a fast-paced, consumption-based SaaS offering in the United States. This full-time position bridges developer relationships and sales strategy, positioning you at the intersection of technical problem-solving and business expansion.

About This Position

In this Senior Solutions Architect role at Temporal Technologies, you'll operate across the entire customer lifecycle—from qualifying prospects and running technical evaluations with new accounts to scaling adoption with established customers in production environments. You'll thrive in a consumption model where customer success directly fuels revenue growth. Working with developers, architects, and engineering leaders at innovative companies, you'll demonstrate how Temporal's workflow orchestration capabilities integrate into their systems architecture. This high-impact position demands deep technical fluency, comfort navigating ambiguity, and the ability to build reusable resources that multiply your team's effectiveness. You must be located in the Central or Eastern time zone.

Key Responsibilities

• Work alongside Account Executives to evaluate new opportunities, conduct hands-on technical assessments, and help customers grow their production footprint with Temporal
• Lead strategic conversations with engineering teams to map their infrastructure needs, constraints, and goals, then position Temporal as a solution
• Design and deliver targeted proof-of-concept implementations and demonstrations that validate Temporal's value for specific use cases, including AI orchestration and agentic workflows
• Facilitate technical enablement sessions that equip customer engineering teams to adopt Temporal effectively
• Develop scalable technical resources and collateral that streamline deal cycles and expand team capacity
• Coach the sales team on Temporal architecture, integration patterns, and opportunity assessment to improve qualification and pipeline quality
• Balance competing priorities across multiple customers and prospects, ensuring strategic initiatives and urgent customer needs receive appropriate focus
• Provide field feedback to Product and Engineering teams that informs roadmap decisions and enhances market fit

Qualifications

• Practical software engineering experience with demonstrated proficiency in at least one production language: Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python
• Solid grasp of distributed systems principles, including reliability patterns, observability design, and fault tolerance strategies
• Proven track record in solutions architecture, pre-sales engineering, or customer-facing technical roles that involved engaging technical decision-makers
• Excellent organizational and prioritization discipline, with the capability to perform under high volume and rapid context-switching
• Demonstrated interest in AI and machine learning technologies, with motivation to understand emerging paradigms in LLM orchestration and agentic systems
• Strong ability to translate complex technical concepts for diverse audiences, from individual developers to C-level engineering leadership
• Adaptability and self-direction in creating structure within unstructured environments

Why Join Temporal Technologies

Temporal Technologies is building the modern foundation for reliable, scalable developer tooling. Our open-source platform and commercial offering are reshaping how organizations architect distributed systems. You'll join a team united by curiosity, collaboration, and commitment to developer success. The role offers competitive compensation—an estimated range of $200,000 to $250,000 OTE with a 70/30 base-to-variable split, plus equity participation. Full-time team members enjoy unlimited PTO, 12 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays, comprehensive coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) planning, and additional professional development, lifestyle, home office, and wellness benefits designed to support your long-term growth.

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