Bazel Engineer (Expert)

Project Overview & Engagement Profile

Core Bazel team

Project scope

The project focuses on delivering a blend of consultancy, migration and open-source work related to Bazel. Team members work on short- and medium-length 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 doing so
• 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 doing so

Tech stack

• Bazel
• Starlark
• Python

Project Challenges

The engagement is part of a group that solves problems too difficult for clients’ own teams, even when supported by LLMs. Work spans multiple ecosystems, codebase sizes, and setup quality—from helping startups to working on world-class Bazel builds such as those at Airbnb, Databricks, or Uber. It requires driving technical initiatives and applying creative problem-solving approaches.

Team

An elite engineering squad consisting of 10 Bazel experts across various short- and mid-term projects.

Required Expertise & Competencies

• Track record of developing solutions around build tools, maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, or optimising SDLC processes
• Expertise in Bazel, preferred, 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, and community engagement are significant assets, along with mentoring and knowledge-sharing capabilities

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
• Virtusity and in-house training
• And more

Access to the listed perks is optional and completely voluntary for B2B contractors.