# Senior Engineering Manager, Builder Tools

**Company**: Temporal
**Location**: United States
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $268,000 - $305,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Description

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Builder Tools team, you will lead a team that empowers a company of builders by delivering a frictionless, standardized ecosystem of core engineering and AI tools.

### Scope & Responsibilities

- Set direction for AI-assisted development, end-to-end: Define the engineering-wide approach for safe, effective AI-assisted workflows (tooling standards, rollout strategy, and adoption).

- Build frictionless paved paths: Identify and remove sources of friction in developer workflows; deliver a small set of deeply reliable, well-supported paved roads rather than many bespoke bypasses.

- Internal AI platform strategy (build vs. buy): Own strategy and execution for internal agent runtimes and developer-facing AI systems (authoring, review, and automation workflows), including vendor evaluation and integrations.

- Governance, cost, and measurement: Drive governance and cost management for AI tooling (usage measurement, guardrails, optimization) using clear metrics and frameworks (e.g., DORA/SPACE) to translate improvements into business outcomes.

### What You’ll Bring

#### Leadership & Execution

- A strong bias toward action, curiosity, and focus on impact.

- Experience leading teams focused on developer productivity, DevEx, internal platforms, or engineering tooling.

- Track record of driving adoption of new workflows and platforms across an engineering organization.

- Ability to operate across boundaries and influence without direct ownership; comfort acting as an internal forward-deployed partner.

- Strong coaching and feedback skills, creating an environment where engineers can grow and ship high-quality systems.

#### AI & Tooling Experience

- Experience evaluating and deploying AI coding tools, developer assistants, and/or LLM-based workflows and agents.

- Intuition for when to adopt vs. build, and how to standardize without blocking innovation.

#### Technical Background

- Strong software engineering background (backend, platform, or developer tools).

- Familiarity with modern developer workflows and the systems that support them.

- Ability to engage deeply in technical discussions around system design, safety guardrails, operational readiness, and tradeoffs.

#### Product & Organizational Thinking

- Ability to translate ambiguous needs into clear guidance and systems.

- Strong empathy for builders and their workflows (including non-traditional developers).

- Experience prioritizing and communicating based on measurable impact, not just qualitative feedback.

### Nice to Haves

- Experience building measurement systems for tooling outcomes (adoption, reliability, cycle time, cost-to-serve, AI spend).

### Compensation

- The estimated pay range for this role is $268,000 - $305,000 depending on experience and location.

- This role is eligible to participate in Temporal's equity plan.

### Benefits

- Unlimited PTO, 12 Holidays + 2 Floating Holidays

- 100% Premiums Coverage for Medical, Dental, and Vision

- AD&D, LT & ST Disability, and Life Insurance (Standard & Supplemental Available)

- Empower 401K Plan

- Additional Perks for Learning & Development, Lifestyle Spending, In-Home Office Setup, Professional Memberships, WFH Meals, Internet Stipend and more!

## Skills

### Required
- AI-assisted development
- developer productivity
- DevEx
- internal platforms
- engineering tooling
- AI coding tools
- developer assistants
- LLM-based workflows
- software engineering
- modern developer workflows

### Nice to have
- measurement systems for tooling outcomes

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