Senior Professional Services Engineer - East

United States - Remote Opportunity · Remote · full time · Senior

$160,000 – $200,000

Listed on Temporal’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

A delivery-focused role helping customers implement and operate Temporal workflow systems reliably in production. Ideal for an engineer with strong distributed systems expertise who thrives on hands-on technical problem-solving, teaching, and working directly with customers to move from design to reliable, scalable implementations.

Our summary, not Temporal’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

Experience delivering and operating production systems where reliability and incident response matter
Understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, scaling tradeoffs, and operational safety
Hands-on coding ability in Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript
Experience deploying and operating production services in cloud 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 situations with a calm and credible approach
Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate ambiguity and 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 in working with partners or services delivery models at scale