Senior Forward Deployed Engineer - Partners & Professional Services

Our partner ecosystem and professional services motion is foundational to Temporal’s overall strategy. As a consumption-based business, hands-on services are critical for accelerating ARR realization and customer success, and our partner ecosystem provides the scale to deliver these services to thousands of customers globally. This is a unique opportunity to join the team as the second Forward Deployed Engineer hire and be a part of a 10x initiative at Temporal. In this role, you’ll be embedded deeply with engineering teams at both partners and customers, getting hands-on to solve distributed systems challenges and using Temporal to power mission-critical use cases ranging from AI agent development to payments modernization. This is a builder role, where you’ll lead project efforts by helping teams define goals, scope technical work, and break down problem spaces into actionable steps. This role requires fluency across multiple programming languages and ecosystems. You’ll advise engineers working in diverse technical environments and help them integrate Temporal effectively, whether building new systems or evolving existing ones. You’ll also play a strategic role in account success. Working closely with Temporal’s sales and partner teams, you’ll help unlock and expand workloads by enabling both partners and internal teams to accelerate delivery and scale adoption. Your efforts ensure these collaborators are equipped to deliver real outcomes in alignment with shared goals. A strong sense for teaching and mentorship is essential. You’ll create enablement content—including code samples, direct code contributions, documentation, and training resources—that helps teams learn by doing and ship faster with Temporal.