Senior Platform Architect - West

Temporal; Seattle, San Francisco, Portland (WA, CA, OR); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Senior Platform Architect to be the accountable technical owner from purchase to stable production, turning complex challenges into scalable, repeatable solutions across customer environments.

As part of the Technical Services team, you will drive production readiness, activation, and long-term technical health while enabling customer success and accelerating growth through strong collaboration with Professional Services, Support, and Partners.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software or solutions engineering experience.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and reliability principles.
• Experience building and operating production-scale systems.
• Ability to guide customers through technical resolution and adoption.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own production readiness and activation for customer deployments.
• Drive first production workflow and reduce time-to-production.
• Establish guardrails and best practices for reliability and upgrades.
• Make customer teams and Temporal SDK experts.
• Set up alerting to catch issues early.
• Lead cross-functional delivery with services, support, partners.
• Manage technical risk and migrations.
• Monitor health signals and ensure production readiness.
• Translate production success into renewal opportunities.

Skills

Distributed systems

Workflow orchestration

Reliability engineering

Go

Java

TypeScript

Python

Customer-facing skills

Tools

Temporal Platform

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Role Summary

Join our Technical Services team as a Senior Platform Architect and drive transformational outcomes with Temporal. You’ll be the accountable technical owner from purchase to stable production, turning complex challenges into scalable, repeatable solutions. Shape delivery patterns, operational standards, and enablement strategies that accelerate customer success and create lasting competitive advantage across teams and environments.

Location: Must reside in the Western Time Zone.

What You’ll Do

Own Production Readiness and Activation

• Act as the single owner of customers' scale-proof production readiness

• Drive the first production workflow and reduce time-to-production

• Establish guardrails and best practices for reliability, failure handling, scaling, and upgrades

• Make developers Temporal SDK experts, make customer platform architects Temporal Server and SDK best practice experts

• Set up alerting to catch issues before customers do

• Work on your assigned customers' most difficult tickets and problems

• Identify and remove activation blockers early before they become escalations

• Optimize costs and performance with customers

Run the Customer’s Technical Program

• Build and execute a KPI-driven success plan tied to production outcomes

• Define standards for patterns, training, governance, and operational readiness

• Lead cross-functional coordination of Professional Services, Support, Partners, and internal teams, leveraging project management to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery

• Proactively manage technical risk, migrations, and architectural debt

Ensure Long-Term Technical Health

• Set and validate reliability, observability, and operational standards

• Monitor health signals and intervene before the customer knows they’re happening

• Lead technical reviews, readiness checkpoints, and maturity assessments

• Certify teams and workloads as production-ready

Drive Adoption Through Production Success

• Surface growth signals based on usage, maturity, and confidence

• Partner with customers, Growth AEs and Solution Architects to unlock new workloads

• Translate production success into clear technical narratives for renewal and growth

• Advocate for customer needs and real-world patterns internally

What You’ll Bring

• 6+ years of professional software engineering or solutions engineering experience

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, workflow orchestration, and reliability engineering principles

• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python

• Experience building, deploying, and operating production systems at scale

• Demonstrated ability to debug complex technical issues and guide customers through resolution

• Strong customer-facing skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences

• Experience creating technical documentation, runbooks, and training materials

• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently while collaborating across teams

• Willingness to travel occasionally for customer engagements and team events

Nice to Have

• Prior experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration platforms

• Experience with observability tools and practices for distributed systems

• Background in professional services, technical consulting, or solutions engineering roles

• Experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and infrastructure-as-code tools

• Contributions to open source projects or developer communities

• Experience designing and delivering technical training or workshops

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

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