Senior Developer Success Engineer - EMEA

<div class="content-intro"><h3><strong>About Us</strong></h3> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>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.</div> <div> </div> <div>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!</div></div><h3><strong>Summary</strong></h3> <p>The <strong>Senior Developer Success Engineer</strong> will be the frontline technical expert for our developer community. You will help users deploy and scale Temporal in cloud-native environments. You will also troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, optimize performance, and develop automation solutions. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on solving distributed systems challenges and improving the developer experience.</p> <h3><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Be a keen <strong>learner</strong>:</li> <ul> <li>At Temporal, you’ll work with cloud-native,<strong> </strong>highly scalable infrastructure spanning<strong> </strong>AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and microservices. You’ll gain deep expertise in distributed systems orchestration, networking, and observability while learning from complex, real-world customer use cases.</li> <li>Our stack includes Go, Python, Typescript, Java, and .Net providing continuous opportunities to hone your programming skills in distributed systems design, testing and troubleshooting, automation, resilience engineering, and performance tuning.</li> </ul> <li>Be a passionate <strong>problem solver</strong>:</li> <ul> <li>If you enjoy tackling scalability, reliability, and troubleshooting challenges in distributed systems, you’ll thrive in this role. </li> <li>You’ll work directly with developers to troubleshoot complex issues, help them optimize performance and reliability, contribute to improving user experience, and help them be successful with using Temporal.</li> <li>You'll develop and troubleshoot implementation patterns (use cases, SDK options, code reviews), observability solutions (Grafana, Prometheus), networking issues (load balancing, DNS, ingress/egress), and infrastructure operations (Terraform, IaC) to help customers run Temporal efficiently at scale.</li> <li>Once ramped up, we expect you to independently drive technical solutions, whether debugging complex production issues or designing best practices. Don't worry—we have seasoned engineers and mentors to support you along the way!</li> </ul> <li>Be a great <strong>communicator</strong>:</li> <ul> <li>As a Senior Developer Success Engineer you will engage directly with developers, engineering teams, and product teams to understand distributed systems challenges and provide solutions that enhance scalability, performance, and reliability.</li> <li>Your insights will influence platform improvements, from enhancing observability tooling to developing self-service solutions that simplify troubleshooting (e.g., building diagnostic tools similar to Twilio’s Network Test).</li> <li>You’ll serve as a bridge between developers and Temporal engineering, ensuring that reliability, performance, and developer experience remain top priorities as Temporal scales.</li> </ul> </ul> <h3><strong>What You'll Bring</strong></h3> <ul> <li>6+ years of experience as a developer, preferably fluent in one or more of the following languages: Python, Java, Golang, TypeScript, DotNe ... (truncated, view full listing at source)