Build Engineer - Bazel - #4770

Responsibilities

• 4+ years of experience working on build systems, CI/CD, or developer productivity / platform tooling.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with a large-scale build system (for example Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle, or CMake).
• 2+ years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or a comparable system.
• 3+ years of professional coding experience in one or more of Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java.
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with AWS and containerized workloads on Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Production Bazel experience, especially in a large, multi-language monorepo.
• Experience with Bazel rules and toolchains, remote caching, remote execution, test sharding, or build performance optimization.
• Experience with dependency management, hermetic and reproducible builds, and test infrastructure at scale.
• Experience improving developer experience in a mixed-language engineering environment (Go, Python, TypeScript, Java).
• Experience building internal CLIs, automation, release tooling, or self-service developer platforms.
• Experience defining and using developer-productivity metrics to prioritize work and demonstrate impact.
• Experience diagnosing and reducing CI flakiness, build nondeterminism, and long-tail pipeline failures.
• Experience supporting scientific, research, or data-intensive teams, including Python packaging and container image workflows.
• Strong debugging skills across complex, multi-team build, test, and pipeline failures.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working directly with developers, researchers, and platform engineers.
• Comfortable using modern AI coding agents as part of day-to-day engineering work while applying sound engineering judgment.
• Experience mentoring engineers or driving adoption of tooling and standards across teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Production Bazel experience, especially in a large, multi-language monorepo.
• Experience with Bazel rules and toolchains, remote caching, remote execution, test sharding, or build performance optimization.
• Experience with dependency management, hermetic and reproducible builds, and test infrastructure at scale.
• Experience improving developer experience in a mixed-language engineering environment (Go, Python, TypeScript, Java).
• Experience building internal CLIs, automation, release tooling, or self-service developer platforms.
• Experience defining and using developer-productivity metrics to prioritize work and demonstrate impact.
• Experience diagnosing and reducing CI flakiness, build nondeterminism, and long-tail pipeline failures.
• Experience supporting scientific, research, or data-intensive teams, including Python packaging and container image workflows.
• Strong debugging skills across complex, multi-team build, test, and pipeline failures.
• Clear communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working directly with developers, researchers, and platform engineers.
• Comfortable using modern AI coding agents as part of day-to-day engineering work while applying sound engineering judgment.
• Experience mentoring engineers or driving adoption of tooling and standards across teams.

Pay

The expected base salary range for this position is $136,000 to $180k. This role may be eligible for other forms of compensation, including an annual bonus and/or incentives, subject to the terms of the applicable plans and Company discretion.

Benefits

This role is eligible for GRAIL’s comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which currently includes flexible time-off or vacation; a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match; medical, dental, and vision coverage; and carefully selected mindfulness programs.