Senior Engineering Manager, Builder Tools

Temporal Technologies

2d•$268,000 - $305,000

About The Position

As a Senior Engineering Manager on the Builder Tools team, you will lead a team that empowers a company of builders by delivering a frictionless, standardized ecosystem of core engineering and AI tools. You’ll operate like internal Forward Deployed Engineers—partnering directly with teams across the company to accelerate safe, effective AI adoption—while also being an early adopter of our own AI products to create a tight feedback loop with product leadership. You will balance speed with reliability: removing invisible barriers that break flow, building paved paths, and prioritizing measurable business impact.

Requirements

A strong bias toward action, curiosity, and focus on impact.
Experience leading teams focused on developer productivity, DevEx, internal platforms, or engineering tooling.
Track record of driving adoption of new workflows and platforms across an engineering organization.
Ability to operate across boundaries and influence without direct ownership; comfort acting as an internal forward-deployed partner.
Strong coaching and feedback skills, creating an environment where engineers can grow and ship high-quality systems.
Experience evaluating and deploying AI coding tools, developer assistants, and/or LLM-based workflows and agents.
Intuition for when to adopt vs. build, and how to standardize without blocking innovation.
Strong software engineering background (backend, platform, or developer tools).
Familiarity with modern developer workflows and the systems that support them.
Ability to engage deeply in technical discussions around system design, safety guardrails, operational readiness, and tradeoffs.
Ability to translate ambiguous needs into clear guidance and systems.
Strong empathy for builders and their workflows (including non-traditional developers).
Experience prioritizing and communicating based on measurable impact, not just qualitative feedback.

Nice To Haves

Experience building measurement systems for tooling outcomes (adoption, reliability, cycle time, cost-to-serve, AI spend).

Responsibilities

Set direction for AI-assisted development, end-to-end: Define the engineering-wide approach for safe, effective AI-assisted workflows (tooling standards, rollout strategy, and adoption).
Build frictionless paved paths: Identify and remove sources of friction in developer workflows; deliver a small set of deeply reliable, well-supported paved roads rather than many bespoke bypasses.
Internal AI platform strategy (build vs. buy): Own strategy and execution for internal agent runtimes and developer-facing AI systems (authoring, review, and automation workflows), including vendor evaluation and integrations.
Governance, cost, and measurement: Drive governance and cost management for AI tooling (usage measurement, guardrails, optimization) using clear metrics and frameworks (e.g., DORA/SPACE) to translate improvements into business outcomes.

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!
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Benefits outside the United States vary by country, and are issued in partnership with Remote.com. Additionally, Temporal offers perks to all international employees for learning & career development, a lifestyle spending account, in-home office setup (in addition to company-issued hardware), professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app for mental wellness.
$3,600 / Year Work from Home Meals
$1,800 / Year Professional Enrichment (Career Development & Professional Memberships)
$1,200 / Year Lifestyle Spending Account
$1,000 / Year In-Home Office Setup (In addition to Temporal issued equipment - laptop, monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and extension power cable at no cost to you)
$74 / Month Reimbursement for Internet
Calm App Subscription for Mental Health & Wellness