Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform & Developer Tools

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Builder Platform Team in the role of expanding and governing our internal Agent Platform, AI infrastructure, and developer tools. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to identify where AI can accelerate work and improve outcomes, while driving adoption of agentic tooling and building measurable productivity improvements.

You will own and improve the developer tooling, including source control and CI, and

Qualifications

• Experience shipping production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.
• Proficiency in Go or TypeScript/JavaScript or Python or Java.
• Experience building workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate the Agent Platform for deploying, running, evaluating, governing, and improving agents and agentic workflows.
• Build and operate AI infrastructure gates, guardrails, cost controls, and rollout policies.
• Create and maintain developer tools to improve builder flow and reduce friction.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to identify AI opportunities and impact.
• Drive adoption of agents and tooling with best practices and enablement materials.
• Establish measurement loops for usage, reliability, and cost to guide roadmaps.
• Turn learnings into validated requirements for Temporal Cloud and SDKs.

Skills

Software engineering

Agentic tooling

Go

TypeScript/JavaScript

Python

Java

Workflow automation

Internal tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decisions

Documentation

Tools

Codex

Claude Code

Source Control

CI

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Builder Platform Team in the role of expanding and governing our internal Agent Platform, AI infrastructure, and developer tools. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to identify where AI can accelerate work and improve outcomes, while driving adoption of agentic tooling and building measurable productivity improvements.

You will own and improve the developer tooling, including source control and CI, and