Temporal Technologies

Senior Platform Architect

Temporal Technologies

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $200,000 - $225,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Act as the single accountable technical owner from purchase through stable production
  • Drive the first production workflow and reduce time-to-production
  • Establish guardrails and best practices for reliability, failure handling, scaling, and upgrades
  • Make developers Temporal SDK experts, make customer platform architects Temporal Server and SDK best practice experts
  • Set up alerting to catch issues before customers do
  • Work on your assigned customers' most difficult tickets and problems
  • Identify and remove activation blockers early before they become escalations
  • Optimize costs and performance with customers
  • Build and execute a KPI-driven success plan tied to production outcomes
  • Define standards for patterns, training, governance, and operational readiness
  • Lead cross-functional coordination of Professional Services, Support, Partners, and internal teams, leveraging project management to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery
  • Proactively manage technical risk, migrations, and architectural debt
  • Set and validate reliability, observability, and operational standards
  • Monitor health signals and intervene before the customer knows they're happening
  • Lead technical reviews, readiness checkpoints, and maturity assessments
  • Certify teams and workloads as production-ready
  • Surface growth signals based on usage, maturity, and confidence
  • Partner with customers, Growth AEs and Solution Architects to unlock new workloads
  • Translate production success into clear technical narratives for renewal and growth
  • Advocate for customer needs and real-world patterns internally

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering or solutions engineering experience
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and reliability engineering principles
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python
  • Experience building, deploying, and operating production systems at scale
  • Demonstrated ability to debug complex technical issues and guide customers through resolution
  • Strong customer-facing skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
  • Experience creating technical documentation, runbooks, and training materials
  • Self-motivated with the ability to work independently while collaborating across teams
  • Willingness to travel occasionally for customer engagements and team events
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!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
GoJavaTypeScriptPythondistributed systemsworkflow orchestrationreliability engineeringproduction systemsdebuggingtechnical documentation
Soft Skills
customer-facing skillscommunicationself-motivatedcollaborationproblem-solvingleadershipproject managementtechnical risk managementproactive managementtraining