
Senior Software Engineer, Builder Tools
Temporal Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $176,000 - $237,600 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- 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.
Benefits
- 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!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringproduction-quality platformsdeveloper toolingprogramming languagesGoTypeScriptJavaScriptPythonJavaworkflow automation
Soft Skills
strong judgmentcross-functional collaborationdata-driven decision makingclear written communication