Senior Platform Architect - UK
Temporal Technologies
Remote
United Kingdom
senior
August 17, 2026
$100k+
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Job Description
About Us
We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox and are building the team that will make that happen.
We’re curious driven collaborative genuine and humble.
If you have a passion for improving the developer experience building world-class open-source software and communities and want to be a part of our amazing team we'd love to hear from you!
Summary
Join our Technical Services team as a Senior Platform Architect and drive transformational outcomes with Temporal.
You’ll be the accountable technical owner from purchase to stable production turning complex challenges into scalable repeatable solutions.
Shape delivery patterns operational standards and enablement strategies that accelerate customer success and create lasting competitive advantage across teams and environments.
What You'll Do
Own Production Readiness and Activation
- Act as the single owner of customers' scale-proof production readiness
- Drive the first production workflow and reduce time-to-production
- Establish guardrails and best practices for reliability failure handling scaling and upgrades
- Make developers Temporal SDK experts make customer platform architects Temporal Server and SDK best practice experts
- Set up alerting to catch issues before customers do
- Work on your assigned customers' most difficult tickets and problems
- Identify and remove activation blockers early before they become escalations
- Optimize costs and performance with customers
Run the Customer's Technical Program
- Build and execute a KPI-driven success plan tied to production outcomes
- Define standards for patterns training governance and operational readiness
- Lead cross-functional coordination of Professional Services Support Partners and internal teams leveraging project management to ensure on-time high-quality delivery
- Proactively manage technical risk migrations and architectural debt
Ensure Long-Term Technical Health
- Set and validate reliability observability and operational standards
- Monitor health signals and intervene before the customer knows they're happening
- Lead technical reviews readiness checkpoints and maturity assessments
- Certify teams and workloads as production-ready
Drive Adoption Through Production Success
- Surface growth signals based on usage maturity and confidence
- Partner with customers Growth AEs and Solution Architects to unlock new workloads
- Translate production success into clear technical narratives for renewal and growth
- Advocate for customer needs and real-world patterns internally
What You'll Bring
- You must reside in the United Kingdom with a preference for London
- 6+ years of professional software engineering or solutions engineering experience
- Strong understanding of distributed systems workflow orchestration and reliability engineering principles
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Go Java TypeScript or Python
- Experience building deploying and operating production systems at scale
- Demonstrated ability to debug complex technical issues and guide customers through resolution
- Strong customer-facing skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse audiences
- Experience creating technical documentation runbooks and training materials
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently while collaborating across teams
- Willingness to travel occasionally for customer engagements and team events
Nice to Haves
- Prior experience with Temporal or similar workflow orchestration platforms
- Experience with observability tools and practices for distributed systems
- Background in professional services technical consulting or solutions engineering roles
- Experience with Kubernetes cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code tools
- Contributions to open source projects or developer communities
- Experience designing and delivering technical training or workshops
Compensation
- The estimated pay range for this role is £85 000 - £115 000 OTE
- This is a base-salary variable role with a 70/30 split.
- Additionally this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
Employment offers carefully consider multiple factors including prior experience knowledge expertise skillset market location and job level assessed during the interview process.
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 Home Office Setup Professional Memberships WFH Meals Internet Stipend and more!
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 home office setup professional memberships work-from-home meals and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
Temporal is a globally distributed collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection.
Occasional travel may be required for company events team offsites and other meaningful moments that bring us together.
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.
If you need to request a reasonable accommodation please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
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