Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience

Join our AI Developer Experience Team as a Software Engineer at Temporal. Our mission is to empower a company of builders by delivering a frictionless, standardized ecosystem of core engineering tools.

You will partner with teams across the company to help standardize workflows and contribute to a tight feedback loop with product leadership that shapes our product direction.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal engineering tooling that improves builder flow and reduces friction across the company.
• Help support adoption of AI agentic coding tools through documentation, automation, and guidance.
• Contribute to the development and operation of internally facing agents.
• Help implement developer workflows, including guardrails and evaluation approaches that enable safe adoption of new tooling.
• Support the 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 outcomes.
• Contribute to measurement and feedback loops (usage, reliability, cost, and cycle time) to help quantify impact and guide iteration.
• Help maintain documentation and enablement materials that support builders using the paved roads.
• Participate in on-call to support internal users.

Requirements

• Solid software engineering fundamentals, with some experience contributing to production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.
• Familiarity with 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 or contributing to workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar).
• Good judgment about when to standardize versus when to enable flexibility, with growing ability to balance friction reduction against reliability.
• Comfort working cross-functionally, including with non-traditional developers, and translating their needs into usable solutions.
• Ability to use data and qualitative feedback to help prioritize and measure impact.
• Clear written communication, including documentation that supports self-service.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to building internal agents or supporting an agent platform.
• Familiarity with developer productivity measurement frameworks such as SPACE and DORA metrics.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range for this role is $160,000 - $200,000.
• Additionally, 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!