Senior Engineering Manager, Builder Tools

Temporal Technologies

Senior Engineering Manager leading a team on AI-assisted workflows at Temporal Technologies. Driving developer productivity through effective AI tools and operational strategies.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $284,000 - $383,400 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Set direction for AI-assisted development, end-to-end: Define the engineering-wide approach for safe, effective AI-assisted workflows (tooling standards, rollout strategy, and adoption).
Build frictionless paved paths: Identify and remove sources of friction in developer workflows; deliver a small set of deeply reliable, well-supported paved roads rather than many bespoke bypasses.
Internal AI platform strategy (build vs. buy): Own strategy and execution for internal agent runtimes and developer-facing AI systems (authoring, review, and automation workflows), including vendor evaluation and integrations.
Governance, cost, and measurement: Drive governance and cost management for AI tooling (usage measurement, guardrails, optimization) using clear metrics and frameworks (e.g., DORA/SPACE) to translate improvements into business outcomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A strong bias toward action, curiosity, and focus on impact.
Experience leading teams focused on developer productivity, DevEx, internal platforms, or engineering tooling.
Track record of driving adoption of new workflows and platforms across an engineering organization.
Ability to operate across boundaries and influence without direct ownership; comfort acting as an internal forward-deployed partner.
Strong coaching and feedback skills, creating an environment where engineers can grow and ship high-quality systems.
Experience evaluating and deploying AI coding tools, developer assistants, and/or LLM-based workflows and agents.
Intuition for when to adopt vs. build, and how to standardize without blocking innovation.
Strong software engineering background (backend, platform, or developer tools).
Familiarity with modern developer workflows and the systems that support them.
Ability to engage deeply in technical discussions around system design, safety guardrails, operational readiness, and tradeoffs.
Ability to translate ambiguous needs into clear guidance and systems.
Strong empathy for builders and their workflows (including non-traditional developers).
Experience prioritizing and communicating based on measurable impact, not just qualitative feedback.
Experience building measurement systems for tooling outcomes (adoption, reliability, cycle time, cost-to-serve, AI spend).

Benefits

Comp & perks

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!

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI-assisted developmentdeveloper productivityinternal platformsengineering toolingAI coding toolsdeveloper assistantsLLM-based workflowssoftware engineeringsystem designmeasurement systems

Soft Skills

bias toward actioncuriosityfocus on impactcoaching skillsfeedback skillsinfluence without ownershipempathy for builderscommunication skillsability to translate needsoperational readiness