Staff Software Engineer, Builder Tools

Join our Builder Tools Team as a Staff 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, reduce friction, and create a tight feedback loop with product leadership.

• →Lead the design, build, and evolution of internal engineering tooling that improves builder flow and reduces friction across the company.
• →Define best practices and drive adoption of AI agentic coding tools through guidance, automation, and hands-on enablement.
• →Architect, develop, and operate internally facing agents that scale across teams and use cases.
• →Own and continuously improve developer workflows, including guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and guidance that enables safe and effective adoption of new tooling.
• →Own the strategy, development, and operation of our internal agent platform, setting direction and ensuring reliability and scalability.
• →Partner closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to identify high-impact opportunities where AI can accelerate work and improve outcomes.
• →Establish and drive measurement and feedback loops (usage, reliability, cost, and cycle time) to quantify impact, inform prioritization, and guide iteration.
• →Create and maintain clear documentation, playbooks, and enablement materials, and proactively drive adoption of paved roads across the organization.
• →Mentor and support engineers on the team, raising the bar on technical design, execution, and use of AI-enabled tooling.
• →Participate in on-call rotation, while identifying and driving improvements that reduce operational burden and improve the internal user experience.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of leading the design, delivery, and operation of production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.
• Experience leveraging modern agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code, including defining best practices and driving adoption across teams.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used at Temporal, such as Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java, with the ability to make pragmatic, high-leverage technical decisions.
• Experience architecting and scaling workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar) used across teams or the organization.
• Strong judgment about when to standardize versus when to enable flexibility, and how to remove friction without compromising reliability, security, or long-term maintainability.
• Comfort leading cross-functional collaboration, including partnering with non-traditional developers and translating ambiguous needs into scalable, well-adopted solutions.
• Ability to use data and qualitative feedback together to define success metrics, prioritize effectively, and measure impact.
• Clear written communication, including documentation that enables self-service and scales knowledge across teams.

• Experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform
• Familiarity with developer productivity measurement frameworks such as SPACE and DORA metrics.

Temporal is a globally distributed, collaborative team that values opportunities for in-person connection. Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other meaningful moments that bring us together.