Software Engineer, AI Developer Experience

About Us

Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster. We are on a mission to be the reliable foundation of every developer’s toolbox, and are building the team that will make that happen.

Our values guide us —they are present in how we show up, make decisions, and work together to make an impact. We’re curious, driven, collaborative, genuine and humble.

Temporal is growing and we are looking for those who share our values, challenge ‘standard’ thinking, and want to influence our future. If you have a passion for improving the developer experience, building world-class open-source software and communities, and want to be a part of our amazing team, we’d love to hear from you!

Summary

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

What You Will Do

• 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.

What You’ll Bring

• 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.

Compensation ranges reflect salary and commission compensation (when applicable) across several geographic markets. Employment offers carefully consi…