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Senior Professional Services Engineer - West
TemporalUnited States - Remote Opportunity · Remote · full time · Senior
$160,000 – $200,000
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What this role is
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.
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What they ask for
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