Staff Engineer – AI Agents & Developer Platform (Remote)

The Briefed; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal's Builder Platform team provides a governed platform for AI agents, workflows and engineering tools, running Temporal on itself first. As a Staff engineer you own the agent platform and the AI infrastructure it runs on.

Key responsibilities include owning strategy, architecture and operation of the Agent Platform; designing the LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails, fallback and cost controls; building agents and workflows from issue to production; leading source control, CI and

Qualifications

• Led the design and running of internal platforms or developer tools.
• Experience with AI coding tools across teams (Codex, Claude Code).
• Proficient in Go, TypeScript, Python or Java.
• Experience building workflow automation or internal tools at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy, architecture and operation of the Agent Platform.
• Design the LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails, fallback and cost controls.
• Build agents and workflows that take work from issue to production.
• Lead source control, CI and developer tools.
• Measure usage, reliability and cost to guide the roadmap.
• Mentor engineers and join the on-call rotation.

Skills

Platform design

Leadership

Go/TypeScript/Python/Java

CI/CD

Cost control

Agent platforms

Mentoring

Codex/Claude Code

Tools

Codex

Claude Code

Job description

Temporal's Builder Platform team provides a governed platform for AI agents, workflows and engineering tools, running Temporal on itself first. As a Staff engineer you own the agent platform and the AI infrastructure it runs on.

Key responsibilities include owning strategy, architecture and operation of the Agent Platform; designing the LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails, fallback and cost controls; building agents and workflows from issue to production; leading source control, CI and