# Senior Professional Services Engineer - West

Hiring organization: [Temporal](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/temporal)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/044168bc-4ce9-4303-ad7e-510f73b5d157

Listed on Temporal's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: United States - Remote Opportunity
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 160000 – 200000 USD per year

## Summary

This role helps Temporal's customers build and operate reliable workflow systems in production, combining hands-on implementation work with knowledge transfer to make their teams self-sufficient. You'll work directly with engineering teams to establish patterns, standards, and operational practices that scale across deployments.

_Our summary, not Temporal's wording._

## Skills named

Cloud Deployment, Go, Java, Python, TypeScript

## Required

- Experience delivering and operating production systems where reliability and incident response matter
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, scaling tradeoffs, and operational safety
- Hands-on coding ability in at least one major language (Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript)
- Experience deploying and operating production services in cloud and/or self-hosted environments
- Ability to design and communicate operational standards including on-call readiness, runbooks, and capacity planning
- Comfort working directly with customers in high-stakes delivery moments with a calm and credible approach
- Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate ambiguity and messy real-world constraints
- Ability to teach and enable other engineers, not just deliver work directly

## Nice to have

- Experience with workflow orchestration systems, distributed task processing, or durable execution concepts
- Track record of building observability programs including dashboards, alerting strategies, and operational maturity models
- Proven ability to create reusable reference architectures, templates, or internal enablement programs
- Strong partnership skills to collaborate with product and engineering teams and translate field learnings into roadmap improvements
- Background working with partners or services delivery models at scale

Apply on Temporal's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/temporaltechnologies/jobs/5210771007