Staff Engineer, AI Agents & Developer 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. As a Staff engineer you own the agent platform and the AI infrastructure it runs on.

Key responsibilities

• Own the strategy, architecture and operation of the Agent Platform
• Design the LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails, fallback and cost controls
• Build agents and workflows that take work from issue to production
• Lead source control, CI and developer tools
• Measure usage, reliability and cost to guide the roadmap
• Mentor engineers and join the on-call rotation

Requirements

• Led the design and running of internal platforms or developer tools
• Use of AI coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code across teams
• Go, TypeScript, Python or Java
• Built workflow automation or internal tools at scale

Nice to have

• Running an internal agent platform
• Building Temporal applications

Remote details

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

Salary and benefits

US base salary $169,600 to $278,250 a year, depending on location, plus equity.

How to apply

Apply on the company's own site.