Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Summary

Join Temporal as a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer and become a key player in our partner ecosystem and professional services, which are crucial to our growth strategy. You will be embedded with engineering teams at partner and customer companies, providing hands-on support and solving complex distributed systems challenges using Temporal. This role involves leading project efforts, defining goals, scoping technical work, and breaking down problems into actionable steps. You will need fluency in multiple programming languages and experience working across diverse technical environments. A strong sense of teaching and mentorship is essential, as you will create enablement content and train teams on using Temporal. This is a builder role where you will contribute to the success of our partners and customers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in software architecture, professional services, or solutions engineering, with a focus on distributed systems or platform adoption
• A builder’s mindset—you create what’s needed, not just deliver what already exists. You’re comfortable working in environments where enablement content and best practices are still being defined
• Strong background in designing and guiding event-driven, asynchronous, or microservice-based architectures
• Fluency in multiple programming languages such as Go, Java, TypeScript, or Python, and experience working across diverse technical environments
• Familiarity with messaging and orchestration tools like Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, or workflow engines, and the ability to apply those concepts to real-world systems
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern application delivery practices, including infrastructure-as-code and observability
• Excellent communication skills—capable of engaging with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders through writing, conversation, and visual design
• Comfortable discussing distributed system technologies, design decisions, and best practices

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural enablement efforts with customer engineering teams and partner organizations, building distributed systems using Temporal
• Scope and structure technical projects by helping teams define goals, organize delivery plans, and align on system design
• Provide deep architectural guidance and hands-on mentorship through code contributions, design reviews, and technical workshops
• Build the content, tools, and frameworks needed to enable success—often in real time as you support teams through their first production initiatives with Temporal
• Collaborate closely with Sales, Customer Success, and Partner teams to accelerate adoption, expand workloads, and drive account success through enablement
• Teach Temporal’s architectural patterns through documentation, training content, example code, and live instruction—all of which you will help create
• Contribute prototypes, integration patterns, and reusable assets that help teams adopt Temporal efficiently and effectively
• Channel learnings from the field back into internal product, documentation, and partner strategy discussions

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!
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com
• Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & 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
• $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
• $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
• $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
• $500 / Year Professional Memberships
• $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
• Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness