Airbnb
Staff Software Engineer, Build (Bazel)
Remote Software Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
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Seniority signalLead
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Staff Software Engineer, Build (Bazel)
Requirements and responsibilities
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- Architecting improvements to our existing Bazel installation, and remote build/cache infrastructure to improve correctness, reproducibility, and speed.
- Setting the technical roadmap for software build system reliability and performance.
- Accelerating inner-loop development velocity, along with CI run-times, by diagnosing and resolving build performance bottlenecks, including remote execution efficiency, cache hit rates, and critical path analysis.
- Driving organizational alignment on build system investments across multiple teams and technical domains.
- Serving as the technical authority on build systems across Airbnb: setting standards, mentoring senior engineers, and owning build architecture decisions across multiple repos.
- Partnering with Security on optimizing build processes related to base images.
- Ensuring a commitment to craft and operational excellence.
- 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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