Senior Software Engineer, Build Infrastructure
Senior Software Engineer owning and evolving Zoox's Bazel-based build infrastructure for a large multi-language monorepo. Optimize build speeds, develop custom rules/tooling, integrate quality tools, and accelerate developer velocity for safety-critical autonomous vehicle software. Requires 8+ years experience including 4+ years with Bazel.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the core Bazel build ecosystem that every engineer at Zoox relies on to compile code and run tests.
- Directly accelerate engineering velocity by minimizing Bazel overhead, streamlining incremental builds to reduce iteration times, and working with our vendor Engflow to optimize our RBE platform.
- Develop custom Bazel rules and tooling (via Starlark) that abstract complexity so product teams can focus on autonomy problems, not build friction.
- Integrate software quality tools into our build system and development workflow (code coverage, static/dynamic analysis, include-what-you-use).
- Build tools and dashboards to empower developers to ship better software faster.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering, mathematics, or related field and 8+ years of experience.
- Minimum of 4 years of expertise with Bazel (or similar systems like Buck or Pants).
- Linux experience.
- Familiarity with maintaining large polyglot code bases.
- Comfortable writing Python to integrate tools and automate as much as possible.
Nice-to-Haves
- C++ experience.
- Experience contributing to open source Bazel.
Skills
Bazel, Starlark, Python, Linux, C++, Buck, Pants, Rbe, Engflow
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