Senior Developer Education Architect

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is building a developer education journey that takes engineers from curiosity to production-ready Temporal applications. As a Senior Developer Advocate, you will teach through code and story, shaping the education platform and delivering exercise-first courses, labs, and video content that demonstrate durable, reliable distributed systems.

You will collaborate across Developer Relations, Product, Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales, and Marketing to empower developers and

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background and the ability to build production-quality, real working examples in at least one of Temporal's SDK languages (Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, or .NET).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including state management, fault tolerance, concurrency, and event-driven architectures.
• Demonstrated experience creating high-quality technical education content (tutorials, workshops, courses, docs, or similar) for developer audiences.
• Clear, pragmatic communication, written and verbal, for technical and mixed audiences with a storyteller's instinct.

Responsibilities

• Help shape the education platform and the direction of the learning experience, not just the content that fills it.
• Design and build exercise-first courses, tutorials, and labs with hands-on examples, video, guides, and learning paths.
• Produce video education content, including long-form walkthroughs and short-form clips.
• Build hands-on AI and agent content showing how Temporal underpins reliable AI systems.
• Design learning experiences reflecting modern developer workflows, including AI-assisted formats.
• Keep educational materials aligned with current product capabilities and patterns.
• Build and maintain reference implementations, labs, and best-practices examples for various SDK languages.
• Represent education in person at conferences or events, and lead workshops or talks as needed.
• Partner with enterprise-facing teams to create reusable educational assets scalable beyond one customer.
• Help run trainer and developer certification programs by defining competency and assessment criteria.
• Collect and share developer feedback to improve education strategy and product direction.

Skills

Go

Java

TypeScript

Python

.NET

Distributed systems

Education content

Storytelling

Ownership

Cross-functional

Travel readiness

Job description

Temporal is building a developer education journey that takes engineers from curiosity to production-ready Temporal applications. As a Senior Developer Advocate, you will teach through code and story, shaping the education platform and delivering exercise-first courses, labs, and video content that demonstrate durable, reliable distributed systems.

You will collaborate across Developer Relations, Product, Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Sales, and Marketing to empower developers and