Senior Staff Software Engineer - Builder Platform
Temporal Technologies19 hours ago
Base Salary
$208k - $341k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set and communicate the multi-year technical vision and executable portfolio for the Builder Platform.
- Lead the architecture and evolution of the shared Agent Platform for deploying, running, evaluating, governing, and improving agents and agentic workflows.
- Establish AI Infrastructure including LLM and MCP gateways, guardrails, fallback behavior, usage and cost controls, model rollout policies, and SLOs.
- Implement AI governance with Security, Legal, and IT through practical controls, approved patterns, and auditability.
- Architect agents and workflows for engineering and business operations and determine which patterns become shared platform capabilities.
- Own technical strategy for Developer Infrastructure, Source Control, CI, repository standards, access and ownership models, reusable workflows, and CI reliability and cost.
- Partner with company leaders to identify, prioritize, and measure AI opportunities and productivity outcomes.
- Standardize agentic tooling adoption through best practices, paved roads, enablement, and organizational influence.
- Define architectural and organizational boundaries and make tradeoffs among speed, flexibility, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.
- Own the customer-zero strategy and feed validated requirements into Temporal Cloud, SDKs, the Agent Harness, and open-source reference architectures.
- Develop senior technical leaders and improve team effectiveness through mentorship, architectural clarity, and consensus building.
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead systemic improvements that reduce operational burden and risk.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of setting technical direction and delivering major platform initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
- Experience using agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code and defining company-wide practices for their adoption.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java, with deep expertise in a relevant domain such as developer infrastructure, distributed systems, AI platforms, or platform engineering.
- Experience building and operating internal platforms, developer infrastructure, or agent platforms adopted across a company.
- Strong judgment in platform-boundary decisions and tradeoffs involving speed, flexibility, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.
- Ability to influence engineering managers, senior individual contributors, Security, Legal, IT, Product, and business stakeholders and convert ambiguous objectives into architecture, standards, roadmaps, and execution.
- Experience defining outcome-oriented metrics for developer productivity or AI systems, including adoption, reliability, quality, cost, and cycle time.
- Clear written communication and the ability to create documentation and technical strategy that enable self-service and alignment.
- Experience establishing governance through paved roads rather than documentation or approval processes alone.
- Evidence of improving technical leaders and teams through mentorship, architectural clarity, and consensus building.
- Preferred experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform.
- Preferred experience building and operating Temporal applications.
- Preferred experience with AI governance, model-access infrastructure, or agent evaluation systems.
- Preferred experience managing GitHub configuration, policy, and workflows at organizational scale.
- Familiarity with SPACE and DORA metrics.],
Benefits
- The role includes participation in an on-call rotation.
- Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and provides reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.
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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.