Join our Builder Platform Team as a Senior Software Engineer. Our mission is to empower a company of builders by delivering a frictionless, standardized, and governed platform for agents, workflows, and core engineering tools. We operate Temporal as customer zero: we partner directly with teams across the company to run their real work on the platform, measure the productivity it unlocks, and feed what we learn back into Temporal’s products and an open-source frameworks our customers can adopt.
What You’ll Do
Develop and operate our Agent Platform for deploying, running, evaluating, governing, and improving agents and agentic workflows.
Establish and operate the AI Infrastructure that agents depend on: LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails, fallback, usage and cost controls, and model rollout policies.
Build and operate agents and workflows that carry engineering work from issue to production and business work from trigger to outcome, with humans governing the boundaries.
Own our Developer Infrastructure (Source Control and CI) and build the developer tools that improve builder flow and reduce friction across the company.
Partner with teams across Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to understand where AI could accelerate their work or improve the quality of outcomes.
Drive adoption of agents and agentic tooling across the company, and own the best practices and enablement materials that help builders succeed using the paved roads.
Build measurement and feedback loops (usage, reliability, and cost) to quantify the productivity the platform unlocks and guide the roadmap.
Treat Temporal as customer zero: turn what we learn into validated requirements for Temporal Cloud, the SDKs, and our Agent Harness, and contribute to an open-source reference architecture that customer platform teams can adopt.
Participate in on-call to support internal users.
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
Experience building and operating Temporal applications.
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
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Skills Required
- 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 of Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Java
- Experience building workflow automation or internal tools, such as CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, or cloud automation
- Strong judgment about standardization, flexibility, reliability, and reducing friction
- Comfort working cross-functionally with technical and non-traditional developers
- Ability to use quantitative data and qualitative feedback to prioritize and measure impact
- Clear written communication and documentation skills
- Experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform
- Experience building and operating Temporal applications
Temporal Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Temporal Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Temporal Technologies.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as 100% employer-paid for medical, dental, and vision, with AD&D, short- and long-term disability, and life insurance included. Feedback suggests this breadth and cost coverage is a strong differentiator for a remote-first employer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes unlimited PTO alongside 12 standard holidays and 2 floating holidays. Feedback suggests this structure supports rest and recharge across teams.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and remote-work support include a home office stipend, internet reimbursement, WFH meals, Calm app access, a lifestyle spending account, and learning/professional membership budgets. Feedback suggests these perks enhance overall total rewards beyond base pay.
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What We Do
Temporal develops and distributes the world's leading open source durable execution system. We make code fault tolerant, durable and simple. Innovative companies like Datadog, Glovo, Indeed, Netflix, Qualtrics, Remitly, Snap and Yum! Brands build their services and applications with Temporal to make them reliable to run, productive to enhance and easy to troubleshoot and repair. More than a decade in the making, Temporal is powered by veterans behind some of the industry's most loved systems technologies, programming frameworks and open source communities as well as investors like Amplify Partners, Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures.
