Senior Software Engineer - Tooling (Bazel)

London, England, United Kingdom Software and Services

This role is primarily focused on developing and delivering solutions by designing, writing, deploying, and maintaining code. Part of the role involves working closely with partner teams in order to help them make efficient use of the tooling and infrastructure we provide.The teams are primarily based in London (UK) and Cupertino (US), we are looking for London-based applicants.What we're looking for• Empathy for the developers who will use the systems we produce.• Commitment to fostering an open and inclusive work environment.• Focus on understanding the underlying needs of the user, and letting that guide the solution.• Growth mindset and willingness to learn from and teach others.• Willingness to productively challenge assumptions.• Curiosity about how systems work and how they fail.• Detail oriented and proud of the work you deliver.• An ability to collaborate with teams who may be unfamiliar with build and CI tooling to help them get the most out of them.You don't need to have experience with any or all of the following, we know that you can learn and grow on the job, but you can find in our Minimum Qualifications some of the things our team values and focuses on day-to-day.

• Appreciate automation and tooling, and believe that they play a critical role in software development.
• Advocate for continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Have experience building tools for engineers, some of which may be backed by distributed systems at large scale.
• Want to participate in the Bazel open source community.

• Have used any of these technologies we tend to focus on:
• Build tools: Bazel, Gradle, Buildbarn.
• Languages: Starlark, Go, Java, Python, Rust, Bash.