About this role
Summary Enterprise engineering teams adopt Temporal when someone they trust shows them how.
The Staff Developer Advocate, Enterprise is a field-facing technical practitioner embedded in our enterprise motion, focused on helping enterprise engineering teams adopt and scale Temporal successfully.
This role's primary focus is the Temporal DevDays program, traveling on-site to customer accounts to deliver hands-on technical enablement tailored to each team's architecture, use cases, and adoption stage. Beyond DevDays, this person runs enterprise office hours, delivers webinars, speaks at conferences, creates technical content, and serves as a trusted technical resource for enterprise developers in our ecosystem.
What You'll DoTravel to enterprise customer sites (approximately 50% of the time) to deliver Temporal DevDays, our flagship on-site technical enablement program, tailored to each account's use cases, architecture, and adoption stage
Prepare and deliver hands-on labs, architectural walkthroughs, and workshop sessions that help enterprise engineering teams build confidently on Temporal
Collaborate with Solutions Architects, Account Executives, and Customer Success to scope and prepare for each engagement and ensure strong outcomes
Contribute sample applications, lab exercises, and reusable content back to the shared DevDays content library
Deliver train-the-trainer sessions where appropriate
Host semi-regular enterprise office hours
Deliver webinars on enterprise-relevant topics, including complex workflow patterns, AI-powered agentic backends, observability, scalability, and platform integrations
Partner with the DevDays program owner, DevRel, and field teams to identify topics and formats that matter most to enterprise audiences
Speak at and attend industry conferences, enterprise developer events, and meetups relevant to the enterprise engineering community
Produce technical content — blog posts, tutorials, architectural guides, diagrams, and videos
Gather structured feedback from DevDays sessions, office hours, and enterprise engagements to surface product gaps, developer experience friction, and adoption blockers
What You'll Bring7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on distributed systems
Proficiency in one or more Temporal SDK languages (Python, Go, Java, TypeScript), with strong working knowledge of distributed systems, state management, and workflow execution concepts
Demonstrated ability to lead technical workshops, hands-on labs, or enablement sessions for senior engineering audiences
Experience engaging directly with enterprise engineering organizations, with an understanding of how large teams adopt and scale developer tooling
Experience mentoring others in a formal or informal capacity
Comfort with approximately 50% travel, domestic and international
Nice to HavePrior experience in a Developer Relations, Solutions Architect, or Solutions Engineering role, especially in an enterprise or field-facing capacity
Experience delivering enterprise hackathons, on-site enablement sessions, or structured technical workshops
Familiarity with Temporal Cloud and advanced Temporal patterns, including AI/agentic backends, LLM orchestration, Nexus, and saga
Existing relationships in enterprise engineering communities or with platform and partner ecosystems
Track record of speaking at technical conferences or leading workshops for enterprise engineering teams
Compensation The estimated pay range for this role is $190,000 - $240,000.
Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.