Staff Developer Advocate, Enterprise - EMEA
Temporal is hiring a Staff Developer Advocate for its enterprise motion in EMEA, a field-facing technical practitioner helping enterprise engineering teams across Europe adopt and scale Temporal. The primary focus is the Temporal DevDays program: travelling on-site to customer accounts (about 50% of the time) to deliver hands-on technical enablement tailored to each team's architecture, use cases and adoption stage. Beyond DevDays, the role includes enterprise office hours, webinars, conference speaking and technical content creation. The position is based in Berlin, Germany, with an estimated pay range of EUR 135,000–160,000 plus equity.
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Responsibilities
- ▹Travel to enterprise customer sites across EMEA (approximately 50% of the time) to deliver Temporal DevDays tailored to each account's use cases, architecture and adoption stage
- ▹Prepare and deliver hands-on labs, architectural walkthroughs and workshop sessions for enterprise engineering teams
- ▹Collaborate with Solutions Architects, Account Executives and Customer Success to scope and prepare each engagement
- ▹Contribute sample applications, lab exercises and reusable content to the shared DevDays content library, and deliver train-the-trainer sessions where appropriate
- ▹Host semi-regular enterprise office hours for EMEA-based engineering teams
- ▹Deliver webinars on enterprise-relevant topics such as complex workflow patterns, AI-powered agentic backends, observability, scalability and platform integrations, scheduled for European time zones
- ▹Speak at and attend industry conferences, enterprise developer events and meetups across Europe
- ▹Produce technical content: blog posts, tutorials, architectural guides, diagrams and videos
- ▹Gather structured feedback to surface product gaps, developer experience friction and adoption blockers, serving as the regional voice of the enterprise developer
Requirements
- ▹7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on distributed systems
- ▹Based in Berlin, Germany, with the right to work in Germany
- ▹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 and understanding how large teams adopt developer tooling
- ▹Experience mentoring others in a formal or informal capacity
- ▹Comfort with approximately 50% travel within EMEA and occasional international travel
- ▹English proficiency
Nice to have
- ▹Prior experience in a Developer Relations, Solutions Architect or Solutions Engineering role, especially enterprise or field-facing
- ▹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 European enterprise engineering communities or with platform and partner ecosystems
- ▹Track record of speaking at European technical conferences
- ▹Fluency in German and Spanish, or additional European languages
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Estimated pay range of EUR 135,000–160,000
- ▹Eligibility to participate in Temporal's equity plan
About the company
Temporal builds a platform adopted by enterprise engineering teams; its enterprise motion, including the flagship Temporal DevDays on-site enablement program, helps large organizations adopt and scale Temporal successfully.