Senior Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience

Job description

Summary

Join our AI Developer Experience Team as a Senior Software Engineer. Our mission is to empower a company of builders by delivering a frictionless, standardized ecosystem of core engineering tools. We partner directly with teams across the company to standardize workflows and create a tight feedback loop with product leadership to influence own own product direction.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform

• Familiarity with developer productivity measurement frameworks such as SPACE and DORA metrics.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $188,000 - $253,800, depending on experience and location.

• Equity Options - Eligible for stock options as part of Temporal’s equity plan