# Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

**Company:** [Glean](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/glean)
**Location:** Palo Alto, CA, San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $140k – $265k/yr
**Skills:** Bazel, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Go, Python, Gradle, Maven, Buck, Blaze, Buildkite, Jenkins
**Posted:** 2026-03-16

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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