Senior Build Systems Lead — Bazel Migration (Python/C++)

Wiraa; United States; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

HSA/FSA benefits

Retirement plan with company match

Relocation assistance

Remote/hybrid work options

Job summary

General Motors seeks a seasoned Software Engineering Leader to modernize and scale build systems by migrating from Make to Bazel, improving speed, reliability, and developer productivity across our software-defined vehicles.

You will design reusable rules, mentor engineering teams, and align migration plans with enterprise CI/CD, testing, and security workflows. Strong leadership and real-time systems expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 15+ years of software development experience.
• Deep understanding of real-time software architecture and safety-critical products.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills with keen attention to detail.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects in fast-paced environments.
• Strong expertise in building and maintaining production software systems.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one additional engineering-tooling language.
• Experience with AI-assisted developer productivity tools, coding agents, code intelligence, knowledge retrieval, or workflow orchestration.
• Experience leading large-scale migrations from Make or shell-based build orchestration to Bazel.
• Background in automotive, embedded, safety-related, calibration, or systems-engineering environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the modernization of embedded-software build and test systems by transitioning legacy workflows to Bazel.
• Assess current build, test, dependency, toolchain, and hardware workflows to define phased migration strategies.
• Design and implement reusable Bazel rules, macros, toolchains, platforms, and repository standards.
• Migrate embedded applications, libraries, generated code, firmware, and cross-compilation flows with validated build parity.
• Integrate Bazel with enterprise CI/CD, testing, release, artifact, deployment, observability, security, and infrastructure workflows.
• Optimize platform performance through caching, parallelism, reliability practices, and continuous improvement.
• Develop documentation, training materials, and support legacy Make retirement efforts.
• Measure and report on migration success metrics including build times, reproducibility, and developer feedback.
• Improve diagnosis and recovery times while ensuring artifact provenance, test evidence, and security compliance.
• Serve as a technical mentor and coach, balancing technical command with empathy to foster team growth.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Real-time software

Mentoring

Documentation

Software architecture

Team coaching

Strategic thinking

Quality mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or equivalent experience

Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, ML/AI, or related field

Tools

Bazel

Make

Python

CI/CD tooling

Job description

General Motors seeks a seasoned Software Engineering Leader to modernize and scale build systems by migrating from Make to Bazel, improving speed, reliability, and developer productivity across our software-defined vehicles.

You will design reusable rules, mentor engineering teams, and align migration plans with enterprise CI/CD, testing, and security workflows. Strong leadership and real-time systems expertise are essential.