Senior Build Systems Engineer — Scale C/C++ & CI

Socket.dev; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Wellness resources

Team events

Job summary

Pure Storage in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Build Environments and Tools team, focusing on scalable build infrastructure for large-scale C/C++ builds.

You will design, develop, and maintain build orchestration systems, optimize build speeds, and mentor peers while partnering with engineering leads to shape the team's roadmap. This role combines hands-on development with cross‑functional collaboration in a fast‑growing hyperscale environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including infrastructure, developer productivity, build systems, or platform engineering.
• Strong understanding of modern build systems and toolchains – dependency management, build-graph correctness, incremental and reproducible builds, artifact generation, and build isolation.
• Hands-on experience with build systems and toolchains such as Make, CMake, or custom/in-house build orchestration tools.
• Experience with large-scale C/C++ builds, including dependency pruning, static/dynamic linking tradeoffs, and reproducible containerized builds.
• Hands-on familiarity with Linux-based development environments, Docker, and the operational concerns of maintaining consistent build images and execution environments.
• Experience with CI pipelines and integrating build tooling into continuous integration workflows.
• Experience using engineering metrics to evaluate and improve build performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functional with adjacent platform teams

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain build orchestration systems and tooling
• Drive improvements to build speed, reliability, reproducibility, debuggability, and ease of use across local development and CI workflows
• Own and evolve containerized build environments, ensuring consistent, isolated, and reproducible build images
• Work on large-scale C/C++ build challenges, including dependency pruning, and static/dynamic linking tradeoffs
• Diagnose and resolve build‑graph correctness issues, flaky builds, and incremental‑build regressions
• Partner with tech leads and the engineering manager to shape the team’s technical roadmap for build systems and developer tooling
• Collaborate with teams across the Hyperscale Line of Business and broader engineering to understand pain points, prioritize fixes, and align tooling investments with product delivery needs
• Establish and uphold operational excellence practices for build infrastructure: observability, incident response, change management, and continuous improvement
• Use engineering metrics to track and improve build performance, reliability, and developer experience
• Mentor other engineers on the team and contribute to a culture of ownership, collaboration, and high technical standards
• We are primarily an in‑office environment and therefore, you will be expected to work from the Santa Clara office in compliance with Everpure’s policies, unless you are on PTO, or work travel, or other approved leave.

Skills

Build systems

C/C++ builds

Make

CMake

Docker

CI pipelines

Linux development

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Make

CMake

Custom build orchestration

Job description

Pure Storage in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Build Environments and Tools team, focusing on scalable build infrastructure for large-scale C/C++ builds.

You will design, develop, and maintain build orchestration systems, optimize build speeds, and mentor peers while partnering with engineering leads to shape the team's roadmap. This role combines hands-on development with cross‑functional collaboration in a fast‑growing hyperscale environment.