Software Engineer, Developer Productivity
Designs and optimizes build systems, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling in a Bazel monorepo. Enables AI-powered productivity tools like GitHub Copilot to boost engineering velocity and reduce workflow friction.
About the job
Responsibilities
Build Systems & Tooling
- Develop and maintain our Bazel monorepo with support for multiple languages.
- Improve build hermeticity, caching, reproducibility, and dependency management.
- Extend Bazel with custom rules, macros, and integrations.
CI/CD Engineering
- Operate and optimize pipelines on GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and cloud runners.
- Reduce CI latency through remote execution, caching, and parallelization.
- Instrument pipelines with telemetry and dashboards to measure speed, reliability, and cost.
Developer Enablement
- Build tools and workflows (CLI utilities, IDE plugins, GitHub bots) that improve day-to-day developer experience.
- Automate debugging of flaky tests and CI failures.
- Simplify onboarding and local dev environments.
AI Adoption & Productivity
- Enable engineers to integrate AI-powered coding assistants (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) into daily workflows.
- Build agentic tooling that automates CI failure analysis, PR triage, and code review support.
- Collect usage insights, build dashboards, and iterate on adoption strategies to maximize developer ROI from AI.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background (Java, Go, Python, or similar).
- Experience with build systems (Bazel strongly preferred; Buck, Blaze, Gradle, or Maven acceptable).
- Hands-on with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, etc.).
- Familiarity with Docker/Kubernetes, cloud runners, and distributed build/test environments.
- Strong debugging skills and an interest in solving workflow bottlenecks.
- Passion for multiplying the effectiveness of other engineers.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience integrating or enabling AI developer tools.
Skills
Bazel, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Go, Python, Gradle, Maven, Buck, Blaze, Buildkite, Jenkins
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