# Staff Software Engineer, Build
**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $204K-$255K
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Bazel, Remote Caching, Action Graph, Dependency Analysis, Ci, Build Systems, Remote Execution, Cache Hit Rates, Critical Path Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-03-20
> Leads development and optimization of large-scale build infrastructure using Bazel, focusing on performance, reliability, and CI efficiency for Airbnb's engineering teams. Requires 8+ years experience, deep Bazel expertise, and cross-team leadership skills.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Architect improvements to existing Bazel installation and remote build/cache infrastructure to improve correctness, reproducibility, and speed.
- Set the technical roadmap for software build system reliability and performance.
- Accelerate inner-loop development velocity and CI run-times by diagnosing and resolving build performance bottlenecks, including remote execution efficiency, cache hit rates, and critical path analysis.
- Drive organizational alignment on build system investments across multiple teams and technical domains.
- Serve as the technical authority on build systems: setting standards, mentoring senior engineers, and owning build architecture decisions across multiple repos.
- Partner with Security on optimizing build processes related to base images.
- Ensure commitment to craft and operational excellence.

## Requirements
- 8+ years industry experience.
- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
- Metrics-driven approach to decision-making, with a track record for delivering quantifiable impact and presenting to engineering leadership.
- Expertise in Bazel, and concepts such as action graph, dependency analysis, remote caching.
- Driving cross-organizational alignment and decisions for investments.
- Strong ability to review code.
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