temporal - Staff Software Engineer - Builder Platform
Requirements
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of leading the design, delivery, and operation of production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling. • Experience leveraging modern agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code, including defining best practices and driving adoption across teams. • Proficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used at Temporal, such as Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java, with the ability to make pragmatic, high-leverage technical decisions. • Experience architecting and scaling workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar) used across teams or the organization. • Strong judgment about when to standardize versus when to enable flexibility, and how to remove friction without compromising reliability, security, or long-term maintainability. • Comfort leading cross-functional collaboration, including partnering with non-traditional developers and translating ambiguous needs into scalable, well-adopted solutions. • Ability to use data and qualitative feedback together to define success metrics, prioritize effectively, and measure impact. • Clear written communication, including documentation that enables self-service and scales knowledge across teams. • Experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform. • Experience building and operating Temporal applications.
Responsibilities
• Own the strategy, architecture, and operation of our Agent Platform for deploying, running, evaluating, governing, and improving agents and agentic workflows, setting direction and ensuring reliability and scalability. • Architect the AI Infrastructure that agents depend on: LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails, fallback, usage and cost controls, and model rollout policies. • Design, build, and operate agents and workflows that carry engineering work from issue to production and business work from trigger to outcome, scaling them across teams and use cases. • Lead the development and evolution of our Developer Infrastructure (Source Control and CI) and the developer tools that improve builder flow and reduce friction across the company. • Partner closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to identify high-impact opportunities where AI can accelerate work and improve outcomes. • Define best practices for agents and agentic tooling, build the enablement materials and paved roads behind them, and proactively drive adoption across the organization. • Establish and drive measurement and feedback loops (usage, reliability, and cost) to quantify the productivity the platform unlocks, inform prioritization, and shape the roadmap. • Lead our work as customer zero: turn what we learn into validated requirements for Temporal Cloud, the SDKs, and our Agent Harness, own the feedback loop with product leadership, and drive our contribution to an open-source reference architecture that customer platform teams can adopt. • Mentor and support engineers on the team, raising the bar on technical design, execution, and use of agents and agentic tooling. • Participate in on-call rotation, while identifying and driving improvements that reduce operational burden and improve the internal user experience.
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