Staff Software Engineer - Builder Platform
Temporal Technologies19 hours ago
Base Salary
$170k - $278k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the strategy, architecture, reliability, scalability, and operation of the internal Agent Platform.
- Architect AI infrastructure including LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails, fallbacks, usage and cost controls, and model rollout policies.
- Design, build, and operate agents and workflows that automate engineering and business work.
- Lead the evolution of developer infrastructure, source control, CI, and developer tools.
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to identify and deliver high-impact AI opportunities.
- Define agent and agentic tooling best practices, enablement materials, and paved roads, and drive organizational adoption.
- Establish measurement and feedback loops for usage, reliability, cost, and productivity.
- Act as customer zero and translate internal learnings into requirements for Temporal Cloud, SDKs, the Agent Harness, and open-source reference architecture.
- Mentor engineers and raise the bar on technical design, execution, and use of agentic tooling.
- Participate in on-call and drive improvements that reduce operational burden and improve internal user experience.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record leading the design, delivery, and operation of production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.
- Experience using agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code, including defining best practices and driving adoption.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Java.
- Experience architecting and scaling workflow automation or internal tools such as CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, or cloud automation.
- Strong judgment balancing standardization, flexibility, reliability, security, and maintainability.
- Ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and translate ambiguous needs into scalable, adopted solutions.
- Ability to combine data and qualitative feedback to define metrics, prioritize work, and measure impact.
- Clear written communication and documentation skills.
- Preferred: experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform.
- Preferred: experience building and operating Temporal applications.
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About Temporal Technologies
Temporal Technologies builds an open-source durable workflow platform that software teams use to orchestrate long-running, stateful application logic across services. It monetizes through a managed cloud offering and commercial support for its server and SDKs. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, it lists public adopters such as Netflix, Snap, Indeed, and Datadog.