Bazel Engineer

Role: Bazel Engineer

Location: Remote – EST

Job type: C2C/W2/1099

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Build Systems Engineer to design and implement a productionready Bazel ecosystem focused on scalability, efficiency, and observability. This role will be responsible for building a robust Bazel platform that supports hermetic builds, remote execution, dependency management, IDEbased development, and enterprisegrade monitoring across CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

Bazel Platform & Infrastructure

• Design and implement Bazel Remote Execution and Remote Caching infrastructure to enable scalable, highperformance builds.
• Ensure the Bazel ecosystem is productionready, secure, and resilient for largescale engineering teams.

Hermetic & Reproducible Builds

• Configure and maintain hermetic toolchains to ensure environmentagnostic, reproducible builds across developer machines and CI environments.
• Standardize build environments to reduce “works on my machine” issues.

Bazel Modernization

• Lead the migration to BazelMod (bzlmod) for dependency and module management.
• Evaluate and improve Bazel target hierarchy, BUILD file structure, and repository organization.
• Implement and tune Gazelle for BUILD file generation, with special attention to Thrift and generated code workflows.

Dependency Management

• Own thirdparty dependency management, with a strong focus on Java and Python ecosystems, addressing versioning, conflicts, and reproducibility challenges.
• Establish best practices for managing external dependencies at scale within Bazel.

Developer Experience & IDE Integration

• Enable IDEbased Bazel development (IntelliJ, VS Code, etc.) to improve developer productivity and adoption.
• Improve build ergonomics, feedback loops, and local development workflows.

Observability & CI/CD Integration

• Integrate Bazel Build Events Protocol (BEP) into centralized dashboards.
• Provide visibility into build performance, cache hit rates, failures, and pipeline health.
• Partner with CI/CD teams to ensure seamless Bazel integration and actionable insights.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong handson experience with Bazel in largescale, production environments.
• Deep understanding of Bazel Remote Execution, Remote Caching, and BEP.
• Experience with BazelMod (bzlmod) and modern Bazel dependency management.
• Expertise in BUILD file design, target graph optimization, and Gazelle.
• Strong background in Java and Python build systems and dependency management.
• Experience designing hermetic build toolchains.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, build observability, and DevOps practices.
• Proficiency with Linux, Git, and modern development workflows.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Thrift, code generation pipelines, or large monorepo environments.
• Exposure to cloudbased build infrastructure (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Kubernetesbased execution).
• Familiarity with developer productivity platforms and build analytics.
• Experience driving build system adoption and change management across teams.