Senior DevOps Engineer - Build/Release (USA based, Hybrid)

Overview:

Key Responsibilities:

• Improve developer feedback cycles by optimizing builds, speeding up compiling and testing.
• Develop utilities and patterns to increase developer productivity.
• Develop linters and other static analysis tools to increase safety.
• Improve feedback cycles at all levels of development (examples: improving the experience of iterating on code locally, deploying to test environments, deploying to production).
• Improve organization wide concerns (examples: identifying and fixing build bottlenecks, improving the observability of running systems, language and library upgrades).
• Help other technologists at be more effective in their roles, through tool and library improvements.
• Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features.
• Review other software engineers’ code for correctness, style, and information security concerns.
• Improve the performance, maintainability, and operations of the code base by engaging in occasional refactoring and upgrade projects.
• Support your team’s production software by responding to an occasional alert or bug report.
• Be an expert and guide for best practices in engineering.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 6+ years of software development experience.
• Genuinely passionate about working with developers and improving their experience and velocity.
• Experience building multi-language monorepo tooling (preferably Bazel).
• Experience with the Bazel production ecosystem (e.g. EngFlow, BuildBarn, BuildBuddy etc.).
• Experience with the integration between Bazel and IDEs such as IntelliJ and VSCode.
• Advanced proficiency in at least one language. We use mostly Scala and C++ on our backend and Typescript on the frontend – it’s great if you’re comfortable in those or if you’re willing to learn. 
• Experience optimizing builds, CI/CD pipelines, and/or test automation.
• Experience building useful utilities and abstractions that enable other teams to deliver software faster.
• Experience as a Technical Leader within a team, helping evaluating and making tech decisions for the team.
• Experience training or mentoring other developers.
• The ability to work closely across teams and manage dependencies.
• A customer- and product-focused mindset, with the ability to make well-reasoned tradeoffs between speed and quality.
• The ability to adapt and handle multiple competing priorities in collaboration with peers.
• Strong bias for automation.