Staff Solutions Architect, New Logo - Central

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Responsibilities

• ▹Help prospects understand if their application is suitable for Temporal
• ▹Help customers & prospects understand the technical benefits and drawbacks of the Temporal platform and cloud service
• ▹Position Temporal successfully against alternative technologies or technical patterns
• ▹Create the conditions in customer engineering organizations that allow them to expand the number of production applications using Temporal
• ▹Partner with Account Executives to develop and execute an overall account plan
• ▹Own the relationship with customer technical decision-makers in evaluating and operating Temporal applications
• ▹Travel expected to be 25-50%

Requirements

• ▹Excellent technical communication skills (presenting, whiteboarding, writing)
• ▹Comfortable discussing distributed system technologies, design decisions, and best practices
• ▹Able to construct application prototypes and follow through with design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one of Temporal's supported languages (Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, PHP)
• ▹Conversant in topics related to operating applications in production, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations
• ▹Can offer helpful advice and good arguments to customers on architectural topics like application patterns and platform architectures
• ▹Comfortable working with at least one of the major cloud providers and using the various services commonly employed for application development & production
• ▹Serve as a technical advisor to Sales Account Executives - identify good/poor fit use cases, assist with scoping and sizing of opportunities, and anticipate where customer technical choices will work for or against Temporal

Nice to have

• ▹Likes to learn new technical topics, often directly from Engineering
• ▹Can come up to speed without any sales-specific training (i.e., from docs, videos & conversations)
• ▹Partners well with engineers working at customer organizations
• ▹Serves as a good technical coach: likes to find ways to make others look smart

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Base salary plus variable compensation (70/30 split)
• ▹Eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan