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Our mission is to empower a company of builders by delivering a frictionless, standardized, and governed platform for agents, workflows, and core engineering tools. We operate Temporal as customer zero: we partner directly with teams across the company to run their real work on the platform, measure the productivity it unlocks, and feed what we learn back into Temporal’s products and open-source frameworks our customers can adopt.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn the strategy, architecture, and operation of our Agent Platform for deploying, running, evaluating, governing, and improving agents and agentic workflows, setting direction and ensuring reliability and scalability.\n\nArchitect the AI Infrastructure that agents depend on: LLM and MCP gateways with guardrails, fallback, usage and cost controls, and model rollout policies.\n\nDesign, build, and operate agents and workflows that carry engineering work from issue to production and business work from trigger to outcome, scaling them across teams and use cases.\n\nLead the development and evolution of our Developer Infrastructure (Source Control and CI) and the developer tools that improve builder flow and reduce friction across the company.\n\nPartner closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to identify high-impact opportunities where AI can accelerate work and improve outcomes.\n\nDefine best practices for agents and agentic tooling, build the enablement materials and paved roads behind them, and proactively drive adoption across the organization.\n\nEstablish and drive measurement and feedback loops (usage, reliability, and cost) to quantify the productivity the platform unlocks, inform prioritization, and shape the roadmap.\n\nLead our work as customer zero: turn what we learn into validated requirements for Temporal Cloud, the SDKs, and our Agent Harness, own the feedback loop with product leadership, and drive our contribution to an open-source reference architecture that customer platform teams can adopt.\n\nMentor and support engineers on the team, raising the bar on technical design, execution, and use of agents and agentic tooling.\n\nParticipate in on-call rotation, while identifying and driving improvements that reduce operational burden and improve the internal user experience.\n\nWhat You’ll Bring\nStrong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of leading the design, delivery, and operation of production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.\n\nExperience leveraging modern agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code, including defining best practices and driving adoption across teams.\n\nProficiency in one or more programming languages commonly used at Temporal, such as Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, or Java, with the ability to make pragmatic, high-leverage technical decisions.\n\nExperience architecting and scaling workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar) used across teams or the organization.\n\nStrong judgment about when to standardize versus when to enable flexibility, and how to remove friction without compromising reliability, security, or long-term maintainability.\n\nComfort leading cross-functional collaboration, including partnering with non-traditional developers and translating ambiguous needs into scalable, well-adopted solutions.\n\nAbility to use data and qualitative feedback together to define success metrics, prioritize effectively, and measure impact.\n\nClear written communication, including documentation that enables self-service and scales knowledge across teams.\n\nNice to Haves\nExperience building internal agents and operating an agent platform.\n\nExperience building and operating Temporal applications.\n\nTemporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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