Senior Staff Software Engineer – Builder Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Define and communicate the long-term technical vision for the Builder Platform.

• Lead the architecture and advancement of Temporal’s Agent Platform.

• Establish AI Infrastructure, encompassing LLM and MCP gateways, guardrails, fallbacks, usage and cost controls, rollout policies, and SLOs.

• Implement AI Governance in collaboration with Security, Legal, and IT teams.

• Design agents and workflows tailored for both engineering and business processes.

• Oversee the technical strategy for Developer Infrastructure, source control, CI, and developer tools.

• Collaborate with leaders in Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to prioritize AI initiatives.

• Standardize the adoption of agents and agentic-tools by implementing best practices, paved roads, and enablement strategies.

• Define architectural and organizational boundaries while making trade-offs in speed, flexibility, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.

• Assess adoption, velocity, reliability, cost, and productivity outcomes.

• Own the customer-zero strategy and convert insights into requirements for Temporal Cloud, SDKs, and Agent Harness.

• Spearhead open-source reference architecture and communicate strategy to customers, partners, and the technical community.

• Cultivate senior technical leaders and align engineering leads and managers.

• Engage in on-call rotation and drive systemic operational enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Robust software engineering fundamentals with a proven record of setting technical direction and executing significant platform initiatives across various engineering teams.

• Experience utilizing modern agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code.

• Proficiency in Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java, with in-depth expertise in at least one relevant domain.

• Experience in building and managing internal platforms, developer infrastructure, or agent platforms adopted throughout a company.

• Strong decision-making skills regarding platform boundaries and technical trade-offs.

• Ability to influence stakeholders in engineering, Security, Legal, IT, Product, and business domains.

• Experience in defining outcome-oriented metrics for developer productivity or AI systems.

• Excellent written communication skills and technical strategy documentation capabilities.

• Experience in establishing governance frameworks through paved roads.

• Demonstrated ability to mentor technical leaders and enhance team effectiveness.

• Participation in an on-call rotation.

• Nice to have: experience with internal agents and agent platforms.

• Nice to have: familiarity with Temporal applications.

• Nice to have: experience in AI governance, model-access infrastructure, or agent evaluation.

• Nice to have: skills in GitHub configuration, policy, and workflows at an organizational scale.

• Nice to have: knowledge of SPACE and DORA metrics.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equity.

• Remote work flexibility.

• Option to opt-out of interview recordings without affecting candidacy.

• Commitment to equal opportunity and support for reasonable accommodations.