Senior Dev Tooling Engineer — Accelerate Code Delivery

Aurec; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Aurec is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join the Dev Tooling / Productivity team in Sydney. You will own the delivery of high‑performance internal development tools that accelerate how engineers ship code, from monorepo management to compiler tuning.

The role emphasizes deep C++ or Python expertise, building scalable tooling, and collaborating with ultra‑productive teams to remove bottlenecks in the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Deep fluency in C++ or Python with strong near‑machine/run‑time understanding.
• Proven track record building internal tools or optimizing pipelines to boost engineering velocity.
• Experience with complex build systems and graph dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Modernise high-scale compilation using Bazel and CMake in a monorepo.
• Tune LLVM/Clang passes and linkers to reduce build bottlenecks.
• Create zero‑overhead bindings (Pybind11) to connect performance engines with data environments.
• Profile test frameworks to deliver instant speedups in daily validation cycles.
• Experiment with autonomous coding agents to automate repetitive refactoring and health checks.

Skills

C++

Python

Tools

Bazel

CMake

LLVM

Clang

Pybind11

Job description

Aurec is seeking a Senior/Staff Software Engineer to join the Dev Tooling / Productivity team in Sydney. You will own the delivery of high‑performance internal development tools that accelerate how engineers ship code, from monorepo management to compiler tuning.

The role emphasizes deep C++ or Python expertise, building scalable tooling, and collaborating with ultra‑productive teams to remove bottlenecks in the development lifecycle.