Remote Senior Staff Engineer, Builder Platform & AI

The Briefed; United States; Remote; USD 208,000 - 341,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a senior leader to shape the Builder Platform across AI agents, workflows, and developer tooling. You will set multi-year technical direction for the platform and oversee the architecture of the Agent Platform used by engineering teams to run their agents.

You will drive governance of AI systems, security, and IT, and define the strategy for source control, CI, and developer tools. You will also mentor senior engineers and participate in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• Experience setting technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience using AI coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code.
• Proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Python or Java with deep expertise in one area.
• Built and operated internal platforms or developer infrastructure.
• Able to influence Security, Legal, Product and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Set a multi-year technical vision for the Builder Platform.
• Lead the architecture of the Agent Platform used by teams to run agents.
• Operate the LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails and SLOs.
• Implement AI governance with Security, Legal and IT.
• Own strategy for source control, CI and developer tools.
• Translate internal lessons into product requirements for Temporal.
• Develop senior technical leaders and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Technical leadership

AI tooling (Codex / Claude Code)

Go

TypeScript

Python

Java

Cross-functional influence

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Temporal is seeking a senior leader to shape the Builder Platform across AI agents, workflows, and developer tooling. You will set multi-year technical direction for the platform and oversee the architecture of the Agent Platform used by engineering teams to run their agents.

You will drive governance of AI systems, security, and IT, and define the strategy for source control, CI, and developer tools. You will also mentor senior engineers and participate in on-call rotations.