Staff Developer Advocate: Enterprise - APJ (Singapore)

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 Enterprise engineering teams adopt Temporal when someone they trust shows them how. The Staff Developer Advocate, Enterprise (Singapore) is a field-facing technical practitioner embedded in our enterprise motion, focused on helping enterprise engineering teams across Singapore and Southeast Asia adopt and scale Temporal successfully. This is a rare opportunity to be the first dedicated enterprise developer advocate in the region, shaping how some of the most sophisticated engineering organizations in Asia-Pacific discover, adopt, and scale durable execution with Temporal. This role's primary focus is the Temporal DevDays program, traveling on-site to customer accounts across the region to deliver hands-on technical enablement tailored to each team's architecture, use cases, and adoption stage. Beyond DevDays, this person runs enterprise office hours, delivers webinars, speaks at conferences, creates technical content, and serves as a trusted technical resource for enterprise developers in our ecosystem. What You'll Do Travel to enterprise customer sites across APJ (approximately 50% of the time) to deliver Temporal DevDays, our flagship on-site technical enablement program, tailored to each account’s use cases, architecture, and adoption stage Prepare and deliver hands-on labs, architectural walkthroughs, and workshop sessions that help enterprise engineering teams build confidently on Temporal Collaborate with Solutions Architects, Account Executives, and Customer Success to scope and prepare for each engagement and ensure strong outcomes Contribute sample applications, lab exercises, and reusable content back to the shared DevDays content library Deliver train-the-trainer sessions where appropriate Host semi-regular enterprise office hours for APJ-based engineering teams Deliver webinars on enterprise-relevant topics, including complex workflow patterns, AI-powered agentic backends, observability, scalability, and platform integrations, scheduled to serve regional time zones Partner with the DevDays program owner, DevRel, and field teams to identify topics and formats that matter most to enterprise audiences in the region Speak at and attend industry conferences, developer events, and meetups across APJ relevant to the enterprise engineering community Produce technical content: blog posts, tutorials, architectural guides, diagrams, and videos Gather structured feedback from DevDays sessions, office hours, and enterprise engagements to surface product gaps, developer experience friction, and adoption blockers from the APJ market Serve as the regional voice of the enterprise developer, bringing region-specific patterns and needs back to the broader DevRel, Engineering, and Product teams What You'll Bring 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on distributed systems Based in Singapore, with the right to work in Singapore Proficiency in one or more Temporal SDK languages (Python, Go, Java, TypeScript), with strong working knowledge of distributed systems, state management, and workflow execution concepts Demonstrated ability to lead technical workshops, hands-on l ... (truncated, view full listing at source)