Temporal
Enterprise · Workflow engine
- HQ
- Seattle, US
- Founded
- 2019
- Website
- temporal.io
Temporal is currently hiring for 7 AI-related roles. All of these positions are focused on the agents stage, representing 100% of their active AI job listings. The majority of these roles are in Engineering, with a smaller number in Product. All current openings are located in the United States. The company is seeking candidates with experience in agent orchestration, tool use, and guardrails.
Currently tracking 5 active AI roles, up 47% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $188k–$383k (avg $268k).
Enterprise · Workflow engine
Temporal currently has 7 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Principal Developer Advocate, AI, Senior Engineering Manager, Builder Tools, Senior Engineering Manager, Compute, Senior Software Engineer, Builder Tools, Staff Product Manager, Agent Platform. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Temporal's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (86%), serving infrastructure (14%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Temporal is hiring AI talent in: United States (7 roles).
Job postings at Temporal most frequently reference: agent orchestration, tool use, model serving, evals, llm observability.
In the past 30 days, Temporal has posted 2 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Engineering Manager, Compute Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Compute team at Temporal, focusing on building and operating the invisible compute substrate for AI workloads. The role involves strategic direction, technical leadership, roadmap development, and operational excellence for a large-scale, multi-tenant compute platform that powers AI-native companies. | Serve | 8 |
| Principal Developer Advocate, AI The Principal Developer Advocate, AI is a senior individual-contributor practitioner who serves as a crucial voice for Temporal in the AI engineering community. You’ll earn developers’ trust in this emerging discipline by shipping standout technical content, building real relationships across the AI ecosystem, and sharing what you’ve learned from your hard-won perspective as someone who has built and operated production AI systems. The world's best AI products are built on Temporal. We give developers the primitives to build reliable, long-running, stateful AI applications, and scale them faster than ever before. In this role, you'll help bring Temporal to the next generation of AI engineers. As a senior individual contributor, you'll be a leader in the developer community and within our company, contributing to our AI strategy and roadmap. |
| Agent |
| 7 |
| Staff Software Engineer - AI SDK Staff Software Engineer - AI SDK role at Temporal, focusing on creating building blocks for AI applications. The role involves designing and implementing SDK features, understanding AI development techniques, working with Python and TypeScript, and collaborating with the developer community. Temporal provides durable execution for AI applications, simplifying distributed systems challenges like reasoning, tool calls, and memory management. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Builder Tools Senior Software Engineer on the Builder Tools Team, focused on empowering builders with a standardized ecosystem of core engineering tools, including AI agentic coding tools and internally facing agents. The role involves developing and operating an internal agent platform, implementing developer workflows with guardrails and evaluation approaches, and partnering across departments to identify AI acceleration opportunities. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Builder Tools Leads a team focused on empowering builders with a standardized ecosystem of core engineering and AI tools, acting as internal Forward Deployed Engineers to accelerate AI adoption and providing feedback on internal AI products. | Agent | 7 |
| Staff Cloud Security Engineer Staff Cloud Security Engineer responsible for securing the Temporal cloud environment, integrating security into platform design, and shaping the responsible use of AI in infrastructure and engineering processes. | — | 5 |
| Staff Solutions Architect - New Logo -West Staff Solutions Architect for the New Logo team, focusing on the Western region. This role involves working directly with prospects and customers to understand their application suitability for Temporal's platform, showcase technical advantages, and position Temporal against alternatives. The architect will help customers expand production applications using Temporal and own the technical relationship with key decision-makers. | — | 0 |
| Senior Security Engineer, GRC Senior Security Engineer, GRC responsible for customer-facing compliance program, managing security questionnaires, due diligence requests, and compliance reviews, and automating parts of the process. Will represent security posture to customers and collaborate with Sales, Legal, and Product. | — | 0 |
| Senior Developer Success Engineer - West Senior Developer Success Engineer for Temporal, an open-source programming model focused on simplifying code, making applications reliable, and accelerating feature delivery. The role involves being a frontline technical expert for the developer community, helping users deploy and scale Temporal in cloud-native environments, troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues, optimizing performance, and developing automation solutions. It requires deep expertise in cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, microservices), programming skills (Go, Python, Java), and problem-solving in distributed systems. | — | 0 |
| Staff Solutions Architect, New Logo - East Staff Solutions Architect for Temporal's New Logo team, focusing on the Eastern region. This role involves guiding prospects and customers on Temporal's platform suitability and technical advantages, positioning it against alternatives, and expanding customer adoption of Temporal in production applications. The architect will own the technical relationship with key decision-makers and partner with Account Executives. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Identity Senior Software Engineer for Identity to design, build, and operate the identity and access systems behind Temporal Cloud, a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Responsibilities include authentication, authorization, integration with customer identity providers, and partnering with Security, Product, and infrastructure teams. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Identity Staff Software Engineer for Identity to design, build, and operate the identity and access platform behind Temporal Cloud, a multi-tenant SaaS serving high-throughput workloads. This role owns systems for authentication, authorization, federation, and distribution of auth material, partnering with Security, Product, and platform teams to deliver secure-by-default capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Staff Developer Advocate - Enterprise - EMEA (Germany) Staff Developer Advocate focused on helping enterprise engineering teams adopt and scale Temporal, delivering hands-on technical enablement, running office hours, webinars, speaking at conferences, creating technical content, and serving as a trusted technical resource. | — | 0 |
| Senior Solutions Architect, Growth - West Senior Solutions Architect for Temporal's Growth team, focusing on the Western region. This role involves working directly with prospects and customers to guide them on Temporal's platform suitability and technical advantages, positioning it against alternatives, and helping customer engineering teams expand production applications. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, DevProd (Infrastructure Observability) Staff Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Team with a focus on Observability, responsible for driving the productivity and reliability of Temporal's core platforms. This role involves leading the end-to-end Software Development Lifecycle for distributed systems, designing and building scalable observability solutions, and participating in the on-call rotation. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations Staff Software Engineer focused on infrastructure foundations, driving technical strategy, alignment, and execution across compute, networking, and cloud orchestration to ensure scalability, reliability, and operational excellence of Temporal's core infrastructure. | — | 0 |
| Senior Application Security Engineer Senior Application Security Engineer responsible for securing the Temporal development pipeline, product, and customer execution environment. Will collaborate with engineering teams and customers to build security into the platform and shape responsible AI usage in product and engineering processes. | — | 0 |
| Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure Senior Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure role focused on driving technical vision, setting architecture standards, and executing complex, high-leverage projects across cloud compute, traffic, security, and reliability for Temporal Cloud. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, DevProd (Infrastructure Observability) Senior Software Engineer on the Infrastructure Team with a focus on Observability - both internal and customer-facing. This role will drive the productivity and reliability of Temporal's developers and core platforms. | — | 0 |
| Senior Solutions Architect - New Logo - West Senior Solutions Architect for Temporal's New Logo team in the Western region. This role involves working directly with prospects and customers to assess application suitability for Temporal's platform, demonstrate technical advantages, position Temporal against competitors, and expand production application adoption. The role also entails managing technical relationships with key decision-makers and partnering with Account Executives. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services, owning the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud, including Write Ahead Log, metadata stores, caches, and tiered storage. | — | 0 |
| Staff Developer Success Engineer Staff Developer Success Engineer for Temporal, an open-source programming model for reliable applications. The role focuses on being a frontline technical expert for the developer community, helping users deploy and scale Temporal in cloud-native environments, troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, optimize performance, and develop automation solutions. Requires strong distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure experience. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage Staff Engineer role focused on designing, building, and maintaining backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant distributed data systems. Owns the custom persistence stack for Temporal Cloud, including storage, retrieval, and lifecycle management of workflow data at scale. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Open Source Server Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain backend functionality for highly scalable, multi-tenant services, focusing on core distributed systems components for an open-source server. | — | 0 |
| Staff Software Engineer - Open Source Server Staff Software Engineer role focused on designing and implementing core backend service features for Temporal, an open-source programming model aimed at simplifying code and making applications reliable. The role involves working on highly scalable, multi-tenant services, focusing on distributed systems aspects like latency, scale, reliability, and availability, with a goal to build a new enterprise offering. | — | 0 |