Staff Developer Advocate, Enterprise - EMEA
Temporal Technologies4 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 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.