Developer Advocate

About the Job

We are expanding our team! You can be anywhere in the U.S. and in the Pacific time zone outside of the U.S., and in other various countries as noted for specified positions.

If you are looking to be a part of an amazing team, have a passion for open-source software, and building a strong developer community, then come join us! Temporal helps developers focus on the important things, like writing business logic, and spend less time worrying about the underlying infrastructure. We have a great open-source community filled with awesome developers (who are also our users!) that provide us with real-time feedback and contributions. Temporal is also backed by top VC firms and has a team of professionals from other successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. We always work toward building the best community, and if these things interest you too, we’d love to hear from you.

Temporal is a product by developers, for developers. Our success so far is largely due to our already thriving and diverse community. We believe that investing in, nurturing and growing with our community will only become more important as our product and business mature. Advocacy is not an afterthought at Temporal, enabling developers is what we are all about.

The Developer Advocate will be Temporal’s functional evangelist, educator, and guide-to-all-things.

Job Responsibilities

• Champion Temporal to our target community at conferences, meetups, coding boot camps, online forums, Twitter, Stack Overflow, Hacker News, and more.
• Nurture relationships with key influencers, foster a healthy technical community, and collect and prioritize product feedback and technical blockers with Product and Engineering teams.
• Create and deliver world class tutorials, demos, sample applications and reference architectures.
• Provide high quality technical expertise, training and help drive education programs.
• Help define and drive high level strategy for advocacy at Temporal.
• Help mentor and grow junior members of the team.

Skills & Experience

• Previous experience as a Developer Evangelist/Advocate.
• Experience working with or as part of remote teams.
• Technical acumen, crisp understanding of distributed systems and ability to write samples and reference applications (Java, Python, GO, others).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; experienced with public speaking, presentations, podcasts, webinars, training, and blog writing.
• Experience growing an open-source community.
• Experience working with 3rd party communities, social media and blogging.
• Travel may be needed depending on where developer events are held.

Bonus

• Expertise in one or more adjacent technical domains:
• Languages: Python, Java, Golang, TypeScript, .Net
• Ecosystems: CI/CD, AI/ML, ETL, Finance, etc
• Technologies: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Terraform/Ansible/CDK

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills and experience. Temporal is growing, and we welcome great people to enable our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future.

Job Benefits

• 100% coverage of premiums for you and your dependents for Medical, dental/ortho, and vision benefits
• AD&D, long- and short-term disability, and life insurance (both standard and supplemental)
• 401K plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Up to 20 weeks of parental leave for birth parents and 12 weeks of leave for non-birth parents, including adoptive and foster parents$1,500/year Learning, career development
• $1,200/year Lifestyle Spending Account
• $1,000/year In-home office setup (This is in addition to what Temporal will issue you, which is a laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable as well at no cost to you)
• $500/year Professional Memberships
• $300/month Work From Home Meals
• $74/month reimbursement for Internet added to your paycheck once a month
• Subscription to the Calm App to promote mental health & wellness
• An "All Access" pass to a WeWork location