Senior-Staff Software Engineer, Engineering Productivity

About the Role

We are actively looking for a talented software engineer to join the Infrastructure team with a focus on improving Engineering Productivity, specifically our Bazel and C++ infrastructure. Example projects include optimizing Bazel, extending and onboarding services to Bazel, and improving C++ support through Bazel and our entire infrastructure. This will have a cross-company impact allowing engineers to quickly iterate locally on microservices and firmware.

This role requires you to be onsite at our HQ in San Mateo, CA (with flexibility to work from home).

What You'll Do

• Make every engineer’s day-to-day productive and enjoyable!
• Define engineering tooling roadmap
• Own Kubernetes deployment and development tooling
• Build various software and hardware testing frameworks
• Provide technical support for engineers on other teams
• Help with growing the team

What You Bring

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a similar position
• Build Systems & Tooling:

* Strong experience with C/C++ build systems (Make, CMake, Meson, or similar)
* Deep understanding of C/C++ compilation, linking, and dependency management
* Experience with build system migration and modernization

• Bazel Expertise:

* Proven experience with Bazel in large-scale monorepo environments
* Proficiency in authoring and maintaining custom Bazel rules
* Experience designing and implementing Bazel toolchains for C/C++ builds
* Knowledge of Bazel remote execution and caching strategies

Nice to Have

• Experience with bzlmod (Bazel's modern dependency management)
• Familiarity with cross-platform C/C++ builds (Linux, macOS, Windows)
• Background in build system performance optimization and incremental compilation
• Background in firmware development and deployment