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Senior Software Engineer, Builder Tools

Builds and maintains internal engineering tooling, AI agents, and developer workflows to enhance productivity across teams. Requires strong software fundamentals, proficiency in Go/TypeScript/Python/Java, and experience with agentic coding tools like Codex and Claude.

188k – 254kUnited StatesDevOps / SRERemote

About the role

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

Skills

GoTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJavaAi Agentic Coding ToolsCodexClaude CodeGithub AutomationCli Tools

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