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# Senior Professional Services Engineer - West

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Temporal posts a senior FDE role to integrate and configure the product, remote, hiring in Washington, at $132,600–$174,037 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Delivers production-ready Temporal implementations with customer and partner teams, spanning workflow design, deployment, operations, and reliability across cloud and self-hosted environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Temporal](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/temporal)

First seen Sep 7, 2026 · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

**$132,600–$174,037** + equity Remote, hiring in Washington Full-time

Delivers production-ready Temporal implementations with customer and partner teams, spanning workflow design, deployment, operations, and reliability across cloud and self-hosted environments.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$133K–$174K Below the median

Midpoint $153K · median $190K

This job $133K to $174K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Integrates and configures it

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Technical lead

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## Conditions

- **Location**: Seattle, WA

- **Work arrangement**: Remote

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Temporal

### Role Summary

Temporal customers are building some of the most critical, reliability-sensitive systems in production. They choose Temporal to move faster, ship with confidence, and operate durable workflows at scale.

As a **Senior Professional Services Engineer**, you will help customers and partners move from design to production-ready execution quickly and safely. You will establish strong delivery patterns, operational standards, and enablement that scale across teams and environments (cloud and self-hosted). This is a delivery-focused role centered on making systems work in the real world, and leaving customers better equipped than when you arrived.

### What You’ll Do

- Deliver production-ready Temporal implementations by co-building initial workflows with customer and partner engineering teams
- Implement and teach production-safe workflow patterns, including retries, timeouts, heartbeats, determinism, and versioning
- Identify and remove early activation blockers before they become escalations
- Help customers stand up and operate Temporal Server in production, including self-hosted environments
- Define worker deployment, scaling, and operational guardrails, including upgrade strategy, failure handling, and capacity planning
- Establish observability and reliability standards by defining metrics, alerts, and dashboards for workflows, workers, and Temporal Server
- Create repeatable runbooks, templates, examples, and documentation that improve delivery quality across engagements
- Lead hands-on workshops and training that enable customer and partner engineers to operate safely and independently
- Own complex technical delivery issues end-to-end, partnering with Support and Platform Architects to reduce escalations to Engineering
- Provide actionable product and engineering feedback based on real-world implementation patterns and failure modes

### What You’ll Bring

- Experience delivering and operating production systems where reliability and incident response matter
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, failure modes, scaling tradeoffs, and operational safety
- Hands-on coding ability in at least one major language such as Go, Java, Python, or TypeScript
- Experience deploying and operating production services in cloud and or self-hosted environments
- Ability to design and communicate operational standards, including on-call readiness, runbooks, and capacity planning
- Comfort working directly with customers in high-stakes delivery moments, with a calm and credible approach
- Strong debugging skills and ability to navigate ambiguity and messy real-world constraints
- Ability to teach and enable other engineers, not just deliver the work directly

### Nice to Have

- Experience with workflow orchestration systems, distributed task processing, or durable execution concepts
- A track record of building observability programs, including dashboards, alerting strategies, and operational maturity models
- Proven ability to create reusable reference architectures, templates, or internal enablement programs
- Strong partnership skills to collaborate with product and engineering teams and translate field learnings into roadmap improvements
- Background in working with partners or services delivery models at scale

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.

[View posting at Temporal](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/temporal/29fbbb7e-f8d3-4424-a301-cb32b704ae16/application)

## About Temporal

Open-source durable execution platform that lets developers write long-running, fault-tolerant workflows and AI agents as ordinary code.

Series D · 200–500 people

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