Staff Developer Advocate, Platform Engineering

1/8/2026

The Staff Developer Advocate will produce high-quality technical content, engage with developers, and gather feedback for product development. This role also involves driving developer engagement and contributing to the growth of the open-source community.

Salary

185000 - 235000 USD

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

201-500 employees

Language

English

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About The Company

Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.

About the Role

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

The Staff Developer Advocate at Temporal Technologies will be the voice and face of our developer community in the Platform Engineering space. This role involves producing high-quality technical content, engaging with developers, and gathering feedback for product development. The successful candidate will drive developer engagement and contribute to the growth of our open-source community.

We’re looking for someone with deep experience with self-service developer platforms, such as those built on Kubernetes, and with that comes a strong background in distributed systems. We need you to be able to speak the same language as other Platform Engineers - Infrastructure as code, CI and CD, progressive delivery, GitOps and more - and help them to both bring Temporal into their own platforms, as well as help them to enable their own internal development teams on using Temporal.

What You’ll Do:

Build Apps: Architect and develop sample applications that developers can use and explore to understand Temporal’s place in the developer ecosystem.
Event Participation: Speak at and support developer events and conferences, especially with a Platform Engineering focus, with occasional travel.
Create Technical Content: Produce high-quality technical content such as blog posts, tutorials, guides, diagrams, workshops, and videos targeted at our core audiences.
Collaborate with Teams: Work closely with Developer Relations, Engineering and Marketing teams to ensure consistent, high-quality content and community engagement.
Community Engagement: Actively engage with the local developer community and represent Temporal through in-person events, as well as digital channels such as our Community Slack, forums, and social media.
Feedback Loop: Gather feedback from the community to influence product development and improve developer experience.

What You’ll Bring:

Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Experience: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on distributed systems.
Mentorship Skills: Experience mentoring others in a formal capacity, volunteer or otherwise.
Technical Skills: Proficiency in one or more of our SDK languages, distributed systems, state management, and workflow execution.

Nice to have:

Strong existing local network of developers and other developer relations professionals.
We will prioritize candidates with an existing track record of speaking and engaging in relevant developer communities.

Compensation:

The estimated pay range for this role is $185,000 - $235,000.
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.

Key Skills

Developer AdvocacyOpen Source SoftwareDistributed SystemsKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDProgressive DeliveryGitOpsTechnical Content CreationCommunity EngagementMentorshipSDK ProficiencyState ManagementWorkflow Execution