Staff Developer Advocate, Enterprise - EMEA
Temporal Technologies5 months ago
Berlin, GermanyStaff+
Responsibilities
- Travel approximately 50% across EMEA to deliver Temporal DevDays and tailored technical enablement at enterprise customer sites.
- Prepare and deliver hands-on labs, architectural walkthroughs, workshops, office hours, webinars, and train-the-trainer sessions.
- Collaborate with Solutions Architects, Account Executives, Customer Success, DevRel, and field teams to prepare engagements and ensure strong outcomes.
- Create sample applications, lab exercises, blog posts, tutorials, architectural guides, diagrams, videos, and other reusable technical content.
- Speak at and attend conferences, enterprise developer events, and meetups across Europe.
- Gather structured feedback from enterprise engagements and communicate EMEA-specific product, developer experience, and adoption needs to internal teams.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on distributed systems.
- Based in Berlin, Germany, with the right to work in Germany.
- Proficiency in one or more Temporal SDK languages: Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript.
- Strong working knowledge of distributed systems, state management, and workflow execution concepts.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical workshops, hands-on labs, or enablement sessions for senior engineering audiences.
- Experience working directly with enterprise engineering organizations and understanding how large teams adopt and scale developer tooling.
- Experience mentoring others formally or informally.
- Comfort with approximately 50% travel within EMEA and occasional international travel.
- Prior Developer Relations, Solutions Architect, or Solutions Engineering experience is preferred, especially in an enterprise or field-facing capacity.
- Experience delivering enterprise hackathons, on-site enablement sessions, or structured technical workshops is preferred.
- Familiarity with Temporal Cloud and advanced Temporal patterns, including AI/agentic backends, LLM orchestration, Nexus, and saga, is preferred.
- Existing relationships in European enterprise engineering communities or platform and partner ecosystems are preferred.
- A track record of speaking at European technical conferences is preferred.
- English is required; German, Spanish, and additional European languages are beneficial.
Benefits
- Based in Berlin, Germany, with approximately 50% travel within EMEA and occasional international travel.
- Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation available for individuals with disabilities.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Temporal Technologies
Temporal Technologies builds an open-source durable workflow platform that software teams use to orchestrate long-running, stateful application logic across services. It monetizes through a managed cloud offering and commercial support for its server and SDKs. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, it lists public adopters such as Netflix, Snap, Indeed, and Datadog.