Senior Staff Software Engineer - Builder Platform

About this role

Set the technical direction for Temporal’s company-wide Builder Platform, spanning agent workflows, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure, and productivity engineering. Lead platform architecture and adoption, measure outcomes, and use Temporal’s internal experience to inform customer-facing products and open-source resources.

About the company

Temporal is a durable execution platform for running reliable workflows and long-running business processes. It helps engineering teams build fault-tolerant applications without custom state machines.

The team

Builder Platform Team, within Engineering, Infrastructure, and Builder Tools.

Stack

What you'll do

• Set multi-year platform technical vision and coordinate execution across engineering domains.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of the shared agent platform.
• Establish AI infrastructure with gateways, guardrails, fallbacks, cost controls, rollout policies, and SLOs.
• Implement practical AI governance with Security, Legal, and IT.
• Own developer infrastructure strategy, including source control, CI, repository standards, and reusable workflows.
• Drive company-wide adoption of agentic tooling through standards, paved roads, and enablement.
• Measure platform adoption, productivity, reliability, and cost; use findings to guide priorities.
• Develop technical leaders, participate in on-call, and improve systemic reliability.

What we're looking for

• Track record setting technical direction and delivering major platform initiatives across multiple teams.
• Experience building and operating internal platforms, developer infrastructure, or company-wide agent platforms.
• Proficiency in Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java, with deep expertise in a relevant domain.
• Strong judgment on platform boundaries and tradeoffs among speed, reliability, security, cost, and maintainability.
• Ability to influence engineering, security, legal, IT, product, and business stakeholders.
• Experience defining outcome-oriented developer productivity or AI system metrics.
• Clear written communication and experience establishing governance through paved roads.
• Experience using agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code and driving organizational adoption.

Nice to have

• Experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform.
• Experience building and operating Temporal applications.
• Experience with AI governance, model-access infrastructure, or agent evaluation systems.
• Experience managing GitHub configuration, policy, and workflows at organizational scale.
• Familiarity with SPACE and DORA metrics.

Benefits

• Equity