Senior DevOps Engineer – Bazel at Scale (Hybrid)

Fractile; Bristol (VA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fractile is seeking an experienced engineer for a hybrid role based in Bristol or London. The chosen candidate will control the Bazel ecosystem, focusing on its implementation from scratch in a dynamic deep-tech environment.

They will undertake responsibilities including designing Bazel rules and optimising CI pipelines, enabling breakthroughs in ML hardware and software development. The position promises significant impact, collaboration across teams, and ownership of software build processes.

Qualifications

• Candidate should have 5+ years in software or infrastructure engineering.
• 3+ years of experience with build systems required.
• Strong knowledge of Bazel is essential.

Responsibilities

• Design and own Bazel rules and extensions.
• Scale the monorepo across various languages.
• Create reproducible, multi-language build pipelines.
• Optimise CI performance across large compute clusters.
• Define the developer experience for all engineers.

Skills

Strong experience with Bazel

Python scripting and automation

5+ years in software or infrastructure engineering

3+ years with build systems

Experience with CI/CD for large-scale products

Tools

GitHub Actions

Containers

Job description

Fractile is seeking an experienced engineer for a hybrid role based in Bristol or London. The chosen candidate will control the Bazel ecosystem, focusing on its implementation from scratch in a dynamic deep-tech environment.

They will undertake responsibilities including designing Bazel rules and optimising CI pipelines, enabling breakthroughs in ML hardware and software development. The position promises significant impact, collaboration across teams, and ownership of software build processes.