Summary Join our AI Developer Experience Team as a Software Engineer. Our mission is to empower a company of builders by delivering a frictionless, standardized ecosystem of core engineering tools. You'll partner with teams across the company to help standardize workflows and contribute to a tight feedback loop with product leadership that shapes our product direction.
What You Will Do- Build and maintain internal engineering tooling that improves builder flow and reduces friction across the company.
- Help support adoption of AI agentic coding tools through documentation, automation, and guidance.
- Contribute to the development and operation of internally facing agents.
- Help implement developer workflows, including guardrails and evaluation approaches that enable safe adoption of new tooling.
- Support the 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 outcomes.
- Contribute to measurement and feedback loops (usage, reliability, cost, and cycle time) to help quantify impact and guide iteration.
- Help maintain documentation and enablement materials that support builders using the paved roads.
- Participate in on-call to support internal users.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals, with some experience contributing to production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.
- Familiarity with 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 or contributing to workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar).
- Good judgment about when to standardize versus when to enable flexibility, with growing ability to balance friction reduction against reliability.
- Comfort working cross-functionally, including with non-traditional developers, and translating their needs into usable solutions.
- Ability to use data and qualitative feedback to help prioritize and measure impact.
- Clear written communication, including documentation that supports self-service.
- Exposure to building internal agents or supporting an agent platform.
- Familiarity with developer productivity measurement frameworks such as SPACE and DORA metrics.
- The estimated pay range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000.
- Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.
- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays
- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision
- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)
- Empower 401K Plan
- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
Travel
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.
- $3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
- $1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
- $1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
- $1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
- $74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
- Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness
Skills Required
- Solid software engineering fundamentals with experience contributing to production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.
- Familiarity with modern agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code.
- Proficiency in one or more languages: Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java.
- Experience building or contributing to workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar).
- Good judgment about when to standardize versus enable flexibility, balancing friction reduction and reliability.
- Comfort working cross-functionally and translating non-traditional developer needs into usable solutions.
- Ability to use data and qualitative feedback to prioritize and measure impact.
- Clear written communication and documentation skills to support self-service.
- Exposure to building internal agents or supporting an agent platform.
- Familiarity with developer productivity measurement frameworks such as SPACE and DORA metrics.
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.
Temporal Technologies Insights
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.
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