Software Engineering Lead - Build Systems, Compilers and Languages

The role

You will lead core engineers and drive the development of key features for the platform. You will contribute to open-source projects like Bazel, gRPC, Goma, Soong, and CMake while solving scalability and performance challenges.

What you will do

• Lead projects
• Manage a growing team
• Contribute directly to product and platform engineering
• Contribute to Bazel, gRPC, Goma, Soong, CMake, and other open-source projects
• Participate in an on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• Proven experience managing and influencing technical teams
• Deep interest in optimization, especially related to compilers, programming languages, and build systems like Bazel, CMake, Maven, Gradle, Nix, or Buck
• Expertise in Linux, Unix, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenShift, Oracle Cloud)
• Experience with asynchronous programming and scalable software architectures
• Proven experience delivering software at scale and maintaining operational excellence
• Strong conflict resolution skills
• Ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation

Nice to have

• Hands-on remote team management experience
• Experience with Terraform
• Programming experience in Java
• Proficiency in other languages like C++ and Rust

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• 401k bonus
• Parental leave
• Generous vacation
• Team events such as chocolate, whisky and tea tastings, monthly team games, escape the room

About the company

EngFlow helps developers save time by accelerating software builds and tests through a cloud-based, distributed service. Founded by key contributors to Bazel, the company builds tools to enhance developer velocity and improve build performance.