Bazel Engineer (Senior)

Project Overview & Engagement Profile

Core Bazel team

Project Scope

The project focuses on delivering consultancy, migration, and open-source work related to Bazel. Team members work on short- and medium-term Bazel projects and may become founding members of longer-lived teams.

Deliverables include:

• Executing smooth Bazel migrations
• Promoting Bazel ecosystems and engineering expertise through technical conferences, meetups, blog posts, and social media channels, if comfortable
• Developing high-quality open-source and internal solutions tailored to Bazel
• Supporting pre-sales activities and strategic technical consultancy
• Developing and delivering training sessions and mentoring engineering teams, if comfortable

Tech Stack

• Bazel
• Starlark
• Python

Project Challenges

The engagement solves complex problems beyond client teams’ capacity, including challenges across multiple ecosystems, codebase sizes, and setup quality. Work ranges from supporting startups to improving world-class Bazel builds. The role requires driving technical initiatives and applying creative problem-solving approaches.

Team

An engineering squad of 10 Bazel experts working across short- and mid-term projects.

Required Expertise & Competencies

• Track record of developing solutions around build tools, maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, or optimizing SDLC processes
• Expertise in Bazel, preferably, or other build tools
• Interest in build systems, SDLC, and developer tooling
• Proficiency in at least one software ecosystem: JVM, Rust, Go, TypeScript, C++, or similar
• Excellent communication skills and a pragmatic approach to technical problem-solving
• Proactive approach to blocker resolution and collaborative technical alignment
• High autonomy in task execution and output delivery
• Public speaking, technical blogging, community engagement, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing experience are significant assets

Candidates do not need to meet every requirement; passion and willingness to develop are valued.

Benefits

• Building a tech community
• Flexible hybrid work model
• Home office reimbursement
• Language lessons
• MyBenefit points
• Private healthcare
• Training package
• In-house training
• Additional perks

Access to perks is optional and voluntary for B2B contractors.