Job Overview
Summary Join our AI Developer Experience Team as a Senior Software Engineer. Our mission is to empower a company of builders by delivering a frictionless, standardized ecosystem of core engineering tools. We partner directly with teams across the company to standardize workflows and create a tight feedback loop with product leadership to influence own own product direction.
What You’ll Do • Build and maintain internal engineering tooling that improves builder flow and reduces friction across the company.
• Provide guidance, best practices, and automation to support adoption of AI agentic coding tools.
• Develop and operate internally facing agents.
• Implement and improve developer workflows, including guardrails, evaluation approaches, and guidance that enables safe adoption of new tooling.
• Own development and operation of our internal agent platform.
• Partner with teams across Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to understand where AI could accelerate their work or improve the quality of outcomes.
• Build measurement and feedback loops (usage, reliability, cost, and cycle time) to quantify impact and guide iteration.
• Own documentation and enablement materials that help builders succeed using the paved roads.
• Participate in on-call to support internal users.
What You’ll Bring • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience shipping and operating production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.
• Experience leveraging modern agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used at Temporal, such as Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java.
• Experience building workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar).
• Strong judgment about when to standardize versus when to enable flexibility, and how to remove friction without compromising reliability.
• Comfort working cross-functionally, including partnering with non-traditional developers and translating needs into usable solutions.
• Ability to use data and qualitative feedback together to prioritize and measure impact.
• Clear written communication, including documentation that enables self-service.
Nice to Haves • Experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform
• Familiarity with developer productivity measurement frameworks such as SPACE and DORA metrics.
Compensation • The estimated pay range for this role is $188,000 - $253,800, depending on experience and location.
• Equity Options - Eligible for stock options as part of Temporal’s equity plan