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We partner directly with teams across the company to standardize workflows, reduce friction, and create a tight feedback loop with product leadership.\r\nWhat You'll Do Lead the design, build, and evolution of internal engineering tooling that improves builder flow and reduces friction across the company.\r\nDefine best practices and drive adoption of AI agentic coding tools through guidance, automation, and hands-on enablement.\r\nArchitect, develop, and operate internally facing agents that scale across teams and use cases.\r\nOwn and continuously improve developer workflows, including guardrails, evaluation frameworks, and guidance that enables safe and effective adoption of new tooling.\r\nOwn the strategy, development, and operation of our internal agent platform, setting direction and ensuring reliability and scalability.\r\nPartner closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A to identify high-impact opportunities where AI can accelerate work and improve outcomes.\r\nEstablish and drive measurement and feedback loops (usage, reliability, cost, and cycle time) to quantify impact, inform prioritization, and guide iteration.\r\nCreate and maintain clear documentation, playbooks, and enablement materials, and proactively drive adoption of paved roads across the organization.\r\nMentor and support engineers on the team, raising the bar on technical design, execution, and use of AI-enabled tooling.\r\nParticipate in on-call rotation, while identifying and driving improvements that reduce operational burden and improve the internal user experience.\r\nWhat You'll Bring Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of leading the design, delivery, and operation of production-quality internal platforms or developer tooling.\r\nExperience leveraging modern agentic coding tools such as Codex and Claude Code, including defining best practices and driving adoption across teams.\r\nExperience architecting and scaling workflow automation or internal tools (CLI tools, services, GitHub automation, cloud automation, or similar) used across teams or the organization.\r\nStrong judgment about when to standardize versus when to enable flexibility, and how to remove friction without compromising reliability, security, or long-term maintainability.\r\nComfort leading cross-functional collaboration, including partnering with non-traditional developers and translating ambiguous needs into scalable, well-adopted solutions.\r\nAbility to use data and qualitative feedback together to define success metrics, prioritize effectively, and measure impact.\r\nClear written communication, including documentation that enables self-service and scales knowledge across teams.\r\nNice to Haves Experience building internal agents and operating an agent platform\r\nFamiliarity with developer productivity measurement frameworks such as SPACE and DORA metrics.\r\nCompensation Base Salary Range - $212,000 - $286,000 depending on qualifications and location\r\nEquity Options - Eligible for stock options as part of Temporal's equity plan\r\nTemporal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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