Senior Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience

Temporal Technologies is an open source programming model company focused on improving the developer experience. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to empower builders by delivering an ecosystem of core engineering tools and standardizing workflows across teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

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