Software Engineering Lead - Build Systems, Compilers and Languages
Leads engineering team developing build systems, compilers, and languages features for a remote execution platform. Drives open-source contributions to Bazel and similar tools, manages projects, and solves scalability challenges. Requires leadership experience and deep optimization expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead core engineers and drive development of key features for the platform.
- Contribute to open-source projects including Bazel, gRPC, Goma, Soong, and CMake.
- Solve complex scalability and performance challenges.
- Lead projects, manage a growing team, and contribute to product and platform engineering.
- Participate in on-call rotation for production issues.
Requirements
- Leadership Experience: Proven experience managing and influencing technical teams; hands-on remote team management a plus.
- Optimization Passion: Deep interest in optimization related to compilers, programming languages, and build systems like Bazel, CMake, Maven, Gradle, Nix, or Buck.
- DevOps & DevInfra Experience: Passion for DevOps and DevInfra; expertise in Linux, Unix, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, Oracle Cloud); Terraform a plus.
- Technical Proficiency: Programming experience in Java; proficiency in C++ and Rust a plus.
- Asynchronous Programming: Experience with asynchronous programming and scalable software architectures.
- Software at Scale: Proven experience delivering software at scale and maintaining operational excellence.
- Conflict Resolution & Communication: Strong conflict resolution skills and ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision benefits.
- 401k, bonus, parental leave, generous vacation.
Skills
Bazel, Cmake, Java, C++, Rust, Linux, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Gradle, Maven
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