Staff Solutions Architect, New Logo - UK

Job Overview

We are seeking a Staff Solutions Architect to join our team in the UK. As Temporal's primary customer-facing technical leader, you will work closely with prospects and customers to guide them in understanding the suitability of their applications for Temporal's platform and showcase the technical advantages of our cloud service.

Responsibilities

• Help prospects understand if their application is suitable for Temporal
• Help customers and 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 organisations 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, C#, Ruby)
• 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 and production
• Serve as a technical advisor to Sales Account Executives - can help 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 Haves

• 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 and conversations)
• Partners well with engineers working at customer organisations
• Serves as a good technical coach: likes to find ways to make others look smart

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is £150,000 - £190,000
• This is a base salary and variable role with a 70/30 split
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan

Benefits

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning and career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness