Staff Developer Advocate

The Staff Developer Advocate at Temporal Technologies will be the voice and face of our developer community in the NYC Area. This role involves producing high-quality technical content, engaging with developers, and gathering feedback for product development. The successful candidate will drive developer engagement and contribute to the growth of our open-source community.

What You’ll Do:

• Build Apps: Architect and develop AI-focused sample applications that developers can use and explore to understand Temporal’s place in the AI ecosystem. 
• Event Participation: Support and participate in local developer events and conferences in the AI space, especially in San Francisco, with occasional travel.
• Create Technical Content: Produce high-quality technical content such as blog posts, tutorials, guides, diagrams, and videos targeted at AI developers around the “agentic backend”.
• Collaborate with Teams: Work closely with developer relations, engineering and marketing teams to ensure consistent, high-quality content and community engagement.
• Community Engagement: Actively engage with the local developer community and represent Temporal through in-person events, as well as digital channels such as our Community Slack, forums, and social media. 
• Feedback Loop: Gather feedback from the community to influence product development and improve developer experience.

What You’ll Bring:

• MUST reside in the NYC area.
• Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong focus on distributed systems.
• Mentorship Skills: Experience mentoring others in a formal capacity, volunteer or otherwise. 
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in one or more of our SDK languages, distributed systems, state management, and workflow execution.

Bonus Points:

• Experience in a developer advocate or relations role; building and engaging developer communities is a plus.
• Strong existing local network of developers. We will prioritize candidates with an existing track record of speaking and engaging in their local developer communities.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $176,400 - $220,500.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.