# Senior Solutions Architect, Commercial  - SF

**Company**: Temporal
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000 - $250,000 OTE
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Summary

Temporal is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to support our Commercial Sales team in a consumption-based business where customer success drives revenue growth. You'll work across the full sales cycle,from initial technical evaluations with new prospects through helping existing customers expand their use of Temporal in production.

## Responsibilities

- Partner with Account Executives throughout the sales cycle to qualify new opportunities, run technical evaluations, and expand production usage with existing customers

- Lead technical conversations with developers, architects, and engineering leaders to understand their systems, constraints, and business objectives

- Build tailored demos and proof-of-concepts that showcase how Temporal solves specific customer problems, including orchestration of AI and agentic workloads

- Deliver enablement sessions that help customer engineering teams adopt Temporal effectively

- Create reusable technical assets that accelerate deals and scale the team's impact

- Enable the Commercial Sales team by educating AEs on Temporal fundamentals, common patterns, and opportunity qualification

- Manage multiple prospects and customers simultaneously, prioritizing effectively across urgent needs and strategic work in a fast-moving environment

- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Developer Success to surface field insights that influence the roadmap

## Requirements

- Strong development background with hands-on coding experience in at least one modern language (Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python)

- Deep understanding of distributed systems (reliability, observability, and fault tolerance)

- Proven experience in a pre-sales, customer-facing engineering, or solutions architecture role working with technical buyers

- Exceptional time management and prioritization skills with the ability to thrive in high-volume environments

- Enthusiasm for AI/ML technologies and eagerness to learn about emerging use cases in agentic workflows and LLM orchestration

- Strong technical communication skills and ability to lead conversations with senior engineers while translating complex concepts for diverse audiences

- Comfortable creating structure where there is none

## Nice to Haves

- Experience with workflow engines, event-driven architectures, or orchestration technologies (Temporal, Cadence, or similar)

- Background articulating the value of commercial SaaS offerings that compete with open source alternatives (Redis, Kafka, Databricks, etc.)

- Contributions to developer tooling, open source projects, or technical content

- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to serve as a technical bridge between customers and internal teams

- Certifications with any of the major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) or foundational AI model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google)

## Compensation

The estimated pay range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000 OTE.

## 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!

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- hands-on coding
- pre-sales
- customer-facing engineering
- solutions architecture
- AI/ML technologies
- technical communication

### Nice to have
- workflow engines
- event-driven architectures
- orchestration technologies
- commercial SaaS offerings
- open source projects
- cloud providers
- AI model providers

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