Responsibilities

Set and communicate a multi-year technical vision for the Builder Platform, translating company strategy into an executable portfolio across Agents & Workflows, AI Infrastructure, Developer Infrastructure, and Productivity Engineering.
Lead the architecture and evolution of our Agent Platform, the shared foundation teams across Temporal use to deploy, run, evaluate, govern, and improve their agents and agentic workflows.
Establish and operate our AI Infrastructure, the LLM and MCP gateways every agent and workflow at Temporal runs through, with guardrails, fallback, usage and cost controls, model rollout policies, and clear SLOs.
Implement AI Governance in partnership with Security, Legal, and IT, turning policy into practical controls, approved patterns, and auditability without creating unnecessary barriers.
Architect the agents and workflows that carry engineering work from issue to production and business work from trigger to outcome, and decide which patterns graduate into shared platform capabilities and which stay with the teams that own them.
Own the technical strategy for our Developer Infrastructure (Source Control and CI) and developer tools, including repository standards, access and ownership models, reusable workflows, and CI reliability and cost.
Partner with leaders across Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to identify where AI can accelerate work and improve outcomes, and prioritize those opportunities into a company-wide portfolio.
Standardize how Temporal adopts agents and agentic tooling (best practices, paved roads, and enablement), driving adoption across the organization through influence rather than mandate.
Define clear architectural and organizational boundaries across the platform (what is centralized, standardized as a paved road, federated to teams, purchased, or deliberately not built) and make the hard tradeoffs among speed, flexibility, reliability, security, cost, and long-term maintainability.
Measure the platform on outcomes (adoption, velocity, reliability, and cost), with feedback loops that quantify the productivity it unlocks and shape the portfolio.
Own our customer-zero strategy: turn what we learn into validated requirements for Temporal Cloud, the SDKs, and our Agent Harness, drive the feedback loop with product leadership, lead our open-source reference architecture for customer platform teams, and represent the strategy with customers, partners, and the broader technical community.
Develop senior technical leaders, create alignment among engineering leads and managers, and make teams more effective without relying on direct authority.

Qualification

Comfort working cross-functionallyClear written communication

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 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

Preferred

Experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform.
Experience building and operating Temporal applications.
Experience defining or implementing AI governance, model-access infrastructure, or agent evaluation systems.
Experience managing GitHub configuration, policy, and workflows at organizational scale
Familiarity with developer productivity measurement frameworks such as SPACE and DORA metrics.
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Senior Software Engineer - Builder Platform at Temporal · LumiJobs

Senior Software Engineer - Builder Platform

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

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