Staff Platform Engineer - AI & Agent Workflows

Temporal; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive the Builder Platform, owning the Agent Platform strategy and the AI infrastructure that powers agentic workflows. You will shape the architecture, oversee reliability, and mentor engineers while aligning with product and GA stakeholders across the org.

You will design scalable agent workflows, lead tooling improvements for CI/CD, source control, and developer experience, and partner with teams to unlock productivity through governance and

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of delivering production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.
• Experience with agentic tooling, AI-infrastructure, or developer productivity platforms is a plus.
• Ability to architect and scale workflow automation and internal tooling used across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy, architecture, and operation of the Agent Platform and related developer tools.
• Architect AI infrastructure including LLM gateways, guardrails, cost controls, and rollout policies.
• Lead development of workflows and agents to move work from issue to production across teams.

Skills

Go

TypeScript

Python

Java

DevOps

CI/CD

Cloud

Leadership

Tools

Codex

Claude Code

GitHub Actions

Job description

Temporal is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive the Builder Platform, owning the Agent Platform strategy and the AI infrastructure that powers agentic workflows. You will shape the architecture, oversee reliability, and mentor engineers while aligning with product and GA stakeholders across the org.

You will design scalable agent workflows, lead tooling improvements for CI/CD, source control, and developer experience, and partner with teams to unlock productivity through governance and