Staff Developer Advocate, AI - San Francisco

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San Francisco, CA
Senior level
Software
The Role
The Staff Developer Advocate will create AI applications, produce technical content, engage with developer communities, and gather feedback for product development.
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Who We Are

 

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. Our amazing user community provides us with real-time feedback and contributions to improve the developer experience everywhere.

 

Backed by top VC firms, we have built a team of professionals from various successful start-ups and well-known technology companies. Together, we collaborate cross-functionally, engage with and support our users to improve the developer experience, deliver world-class open-source software, and enhance our commercial SaaS platform.

 

Temporal is growing and working towards building the best community. We are looking for those who share our values, challenge 'standard' thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for helping developer communities, open-source software, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we'd love to hear from you!

Summary

The Staff Developer Advocate at Temporal Technologies will be the voice and face of our developer community in the AI space in the Bay 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 San Francisco 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 $185,000 - $235,000.
  • Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors, including prior experience, knowledge, expertise, skillset, market location, and job level assessed during the interview process.

 

Employee benefits and perks below are for full-time employees, part-time or temporary positions are excluded. 

 

U.S. Benefits 

  • Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
  • 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
  • Empower 401K Plan
  • Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!

International Benefits

  • Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com.  Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.

Additional Perks 

  • $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals 
  • $1,500 / Year Career Development & Learning
  • $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
  • $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
  • $500 / Year Professional Memberships
  • $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
  • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

 

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

 

We are not working with external recruitment agencies, thanks.

Top Skills

AI
Distributed Systems
Sdk Languages
State Management
Workflow Execution
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The Company
Bellevue, Washington
132 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

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.

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