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As a Staff Developer Advocate, you'll define developer education strategies, deliver workshops, mentor others and work with developers to enhance their experience with Temporal's technology.
About Us
Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.
Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.
Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!
Summary
Join Temporal’s Enterprise Developer Advocacy team as a Staff Developer Advocate, Developer Education, where you’ll play a central role in shaping how enterprise developers learn, adopt, and succeed with Temporal.
This is a senior individual contributor role focused on education strategy, technical mentorship, and hands-on delivery. You’ll help define how we design and deliver developer education in a post-COVID, LLM-enabled world, while staying deeply connected to real developers through workshops, Dev Days, and field engagements.
You’ll act as a technical partner to Enterprise DevRel leadership, set quality and direction for education initiatives, and help scale what works through thoughtful programs, strong technical examples, and direct developer feedback.
What You’ll Do
- Define and evolve Temporal’s enterprise developer education approach, grounded in how developers actually learn and practice their craft today
- Set technical and instructional direction for programs like workshops and training experiences
- Partner with DevRel leadership to prioritize education investments and identify where new formats or tooling make sense
- Design and coordinate train-the-trainer initiatives, including curriculum structure, enablement materials and ongoing support
- Help define certification pathways for trainers and developers, including clear skill areas, technical criteria, and assessment approaches
- Experiment thoughtfully with new education formats (e.g. AI-assisted learning, interactive labs, hybrid delivery), evaluating effectiveness and iterating based on feedback
- Ensure educational materials reflect current product capabilities and recommended architectural patterns
- Validate content by teaching it directly and refining based on developer outcomes
- Design and deliver enterprise Dev Day workshops and technical training sessions
- Partner with Sales, Solutions Architecture, and Field Marketing on high-impact customer engagements
- Represent Temporal at conferences, meetups, webinars, and community events with strong technical talks
- Mentor other advocates, educators, and contributors on technical depth, workshop design and instructional clarity
- Serve as a technical sounding board for education initiatives across the DevRel org
What You’ll Bring
- Strong software engineering background with experience building and operating distributed systems
- Ability to build production-quality applications in at least one of Temporal’s primary SDK languages (Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, or .NET)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals such as state management, fault tolerance, concurrency, and event-driven architectures
- Demonstrated experience creating high-quality, outside-of-the-box, technical education (tutorials, workshops, courses, or documentation)
- Experience designing and delivering hands-on workshops or training for developer audiences
- Strategic mindset with the ability to shape programs, not just execute tasks
- Clear, pragmatic communication style with strong written and verbal skills
- Comfort operating as a senior IC with broad ownership and cross-functional influence
- Willingness to travel up to ~30% for Dev Days, customer engagements, conferences, and team offsites
Nice to Haves
- Experience with Temporal
- Background in developer education, DevRel, or technical enablement roles
- Experience designing certification programs or competency frameworks
- Experience mentoring other technical educators or advocates
- Experience experimenting with AI-assisted learning or modern education tooling
- Experience working with enterprise customers on technical enablement or architectural guidance
- Contributions to open source projects
- Experience working in a remote-first, globally distributed company
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is $170,000 - $215,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.
Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded.
U.S. 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!
International Benefits
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.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
Additional Perks
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $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)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.
Top Skills
.Net
Go
Java
Python
Typescript
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