Temporal Technologies - Senior Engineering Manager, Builder Tools
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Requirements
• Leadership & Execution • A strong bias toward action, curiosity, and focus on impact. • Experience leading teams focused on developer productivity, DevEx, internal platforms, or engineering tooling. • Track record of driving adoption of new workflows and platforms across an engineering organization. • Ability to operate across boundaries and influence without direct ownership; comfort acting as an internal forward-deployed partner. • Strong coaching and feedback skills, creating an environment where engineers can grow and ship high-quality systems. • Experience evaluating and deploying AI coding tools, developer assistants, and/or LLM-based workflows and agents. • Intuition for when to adopt vs. build, and how to standardize without blocking innovation. • Technical Background • Strong software engineering background (backend, platform, or developer tools). • Familiarity with modern developer workflows and the systems that support them. • Ability to engage deeply in technical discussions around system design, safety guardrails, operational readiness, and tradeoffs. • Product & Organizational Thinking • Ability to translate ambiguous needs into clear guidance and systems. • Strong empathy for builders and their workflows (including non-traditional developers). • Experience prioritizing and communicating based on measurable impact, not just qualitative feedback. • Experience building measurement systems for tooling outcomes (adoption, reliability, cycle time, cost-to-serve, AI spend).
Responsibilities
• Set direction for AI-assisted development, end-to-end: Define the engineering-wide approach for safe, effective AI-assisted workflows (tooling standards, rollout strategy, and adoption). • Set direction for AI-assisted development, end-to-end: • Build frictionless paved paths: Identify and remove sources of friction in developer workflows; deliver a small set of deeply reliable, well-supported paved roads rather than many bespoke bypasses. • Build frictionless paved paths: • Internal AI platform strategy (build vs. buy): Own strategy and execution for internal agent runtimes and developer-facing AI systems (authoring, review, and automation workflows), including vendor evaluation and integrations. • Internal AI platform strategy (build vs. buy): • Governance, cost, and measurement: Drive governance and cost management for AI tooling (usage measurement, guardrails, optimization) using clear metrics and frameworks (e.g., DORA/SPACE) to translate improvements into business outcomes. • Governance, cost, and measurement:
Benefits
• The estimated pay range for this role is $268,000 - $305,000 depending on experience and location. • This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan. • 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! • 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. • 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. • $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals • $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships) • $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) • $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet • Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
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