Senior Staff Engineer, AI Agent Platform (Remote US)

Temporal's Builder Platform team gives the whole company a governed platform for AI agents, workflows and engineering tools, running Temporal on itself first. In this company-level role you set the multi-year technical direction across agents, AI infrastructure, developer infrastructure and productivity.

Key responsibilities

• Set a multi-year technical vision for the Builder Platform
• Lead the architecture of the Agent Platform that teams use to run their agents
• Run the LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails, cost controls and SLOs
• Put AI governance into practice with Security, Legal and IT
• Own the strategy for source control, CI and developer tools
• Turn internal lessons into requirements for Temporal's products
• Develop senior technical leaders; join the on-call rotation

Requirements

• A record of setting technical direction across several engineering teams
• Company-wide use of AI coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code
• Go, TypeScript, Python or Java, with deep expertise in one related area
• Built and ran internal platforms or developer infrastructure
• Influence with managers, Security, Legal, Product and business teams

Nice to have

• Running an internal agent platform
• Building Temporal applications
• Developer productivity metrics such as SPACE and DORA

Remote details

• Full-time remote role, open to people in the United States

Salary and benefits

US base salary $208,000 to $341,250 a year, depending on location, plus equity.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.