Senior Software Engineer, Build Infrastructure

The role

You will own and improve the Bazel build system used by every engineer at Zoox to compile code and run tests. The work covers a large multi-language monorepo, a remote build farm and cache, and developer tooling and dashboards.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the core Bazel build ecosystem
• Reduce Bazel overhead and speed up incremental builds
• Work with vendor Engflow to optimize the RBE platform
• Develop custom Bazel rules and tooling in Starlark
• Integrate code coverage, static and dynamic analysis, and include-what-you-use into the build system
• Build tools and dashboards for developers
• Configure and upgrade compilers
• Profile and optimize build pipelines
• Serve as the primary expert for build-related questions

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, mathematics, or related field
• 8+ years of experience
• At least 2 years of expertise with Bazel (or similar systems like Buck or Pants)
• Linux experience
• Familiarity with maintaining large polyglot code bases
• Comfortable writing Python to integrate tools and automate

Nice to have

• C++ experience
• Experience contributing to open source Bazel

Before you apply

• You do not need to match every listed expectation to apply

About the company

Zoox is developing the first ground-up, fully autonomous vehicle fleet and the supporting ecosystem to bring it to market. It aims to provide next-generation mobility-as-a-service in urban environments.