Senior Staff Software Engineer - Builder Platform

ROLE SUMMARY

Join our Builder Platform Team as a Senior Staff 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 open-source frameworks our customers can adopt.

This is a company-level technical leadership role spanning Agents & Workflows, AI Infrastructure, Developer Infrastructure, and Productivity Engineering. You will set the multi-year technical direction for the platform, align teams around clear architectural boundaries and standards, and lead major cross-functional initiatives from ambiguous opportunity through durable adoption and measurable impact.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• 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.
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