Senior Build Systems & Pipeline Engineer

• →Architect, implement, and maintain scalable build systems for large multi-platform codebases spanning web, services, iOS, and Android
• →Design and optimize Bazel-based build infrastructure for performance, reliability, and reproducibility
• →Build and operate dynamic CI/CD pipelines using platforms such as Buildkite and GitLab
• →Develop stable and scalable automated test pipelines for web applications, backend services, and mobile platforms
• →Improve build and test observability through metrics, telemetry, dashboards, alerting, tracing, and pipeline health analysis
• →Drive improvements in build performance, developer feedback loops, release velocity, and infrastructure reliability
• →Develop tooling and automation supporting testing, release orchestration, artifact management, and deployment workflows
• →Partner with engineering teams to streamline developer workflows and improve day-to-day engineering productivity
• →Enable scalable remote caching and distributed build execution strategies
• →Apply AI-assisted development tools and workflows to improve engineering productivity, debugging, code quality, testing, and operational efficiency
• →Evaluate and integrate emerging AI-enabled engineering workflows into development environments and CI/CD systems
• →Design engineering systems and repositories that work effectively with AI-assisted developer tooling through strong conventions, documentation, metadata, and workflow design
• →Contribute to long-term platform strategy around build infrastructure, developer velocity, observability, and intelligent automation

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience in build systems, CI/CD infrastructure, or developer platform engineering
• Deep expertise with Bazel build systems in large-scale production environments
• Strong experience designing and operating dynamic pipelines using platforms such as Buildkite
• Experience supporting large-scale web and mobile application development environments
• Strong understanding of build graph optimization, dependency management, caching strategies, and reproducible builds
• Experience building reliable automated testing infrastructure across frontend, backend, and mobile systems
• Strong understanding of system observability, metrics, monitoring, telemetry, tracing, and operational health analysis
• Experience with cloud-native infrastructure and scalable distributed systems
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, Rust, Kotlin, Swift, or TypeScript
• Strong practical understanding of modern AI-assisted software engineering workflows and tools
• Experience using AI-assisted development environments such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent tooling in day-to-day engineering workflows
• Ability to effectively guide, constrain, and evaluate AI-generated output through structured prompting, iteration, validation, and engineering review practices
• Experience applying AI tooling to workflow automation, debugging, incident analysis, code generation, testing, documentation, or developer experience improvements
• Understanding of where AI-assisted workflows are effective — and where engineering judgment, validation, and human review remain critical
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across distributed engineering teams

• Experience with remote execution environments and distributed build systems
• Familiarity with monorepo tooling and large-scale source management strategies
• Experience with release automation and deployment orchestration at scale
• Experience improving developer experience and internal engineering platforms
• Experience operationalizing AI-enabled engineering workflows in large engineering organizations
• Familiarity with agentic developer workflows, multi-step automation systems, or AI- assisted operational tooling
• Experience designing repositories, documentation, and development conventions optimized for AI-assisted engineering workflows

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