Staff Build Platform Architect

Engg; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 217,000 - 326,000; Full time

Job summary

Everpure is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to define the multi-year architecture for build infrastructure within the Hyperscale organization. You will lead high-ambiguity technical work, set platform direction, and raise the engineering bar across teams to accelerate the entire hyperscale development workload.

You will own build orchestration across the line, drive improvements in speed, reliability, and reproducibility, and mentor engineers while collaborating with engineering managers to

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure, developer productivity, build systems, or platform engineering.
• Track record setting technical direction for a platform used by many teams across organizations.
• Deep expertise in modern build systems and toolchains with dependency management, build-graph correctness, incremental and reproducible builds, remote execution and caching, artifact generation, and build isolation.
• Hands-on depth with build orchestration tools such as Make, CMake, Buck/Bazel, or custom/in-house tooling.
• Deep experience with large-scale C/C++ builds: dependency pruning, static/dynamic linking tradeoffs, toolchain management, and reproducible containerized builds.
• Strong command of Linux-based development environments, Docker, and maintaining consistent build images at scale.
• Experience designing and operating CI pipelines and integrating build tooling into CI workflows.
• Demonstrated use of engineering metrics to evaluate and improve build performance and developer experience.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence technical decisions across organizational boundaries.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and multi-year architecture for build orchestration, build systems, and containerized build environments across the Hyperscale Line of Business.
• Make and document architectural decisions: build system selection and migration, remote execution and caching strategy, hermeticity and reproducibility guarantees, and the tradeoffs for developers.
• Drive step-change improvements to build speed, reliability, reproducibility, debuggability, and ease of use across local development and CI workflows.
• Solve large-scale C/C++ build challenges at their root: dependency graph decomposition and pruning, static/dynamic linking tradeoffs, toolchain and sysroot management, and incremental correctness.
• Diagnose and eliminate build-graph correctness issues, flaky builds, and incremental-build regressions rather than isolated incidents.
• Define the standards for containerized build environments—consistent, isolated, reproducible images with lifecycle and upgrade paths.
• Partner with the engineering manager to shape the team’s roadmap, investments, and tradeoffs between platform work and product delivery.
• Influence engineering leaders across Hyperscale and the organization on tooling direction, migration plans, and shared standards.
• Set the operational excellence bar for build infrastructure: observability, incident response, change management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
• Establish engineering metrics to define developer experience and justify investment; mentor engineers and raise technical depth.

Skills

Build systems

Platform engineering

Developer productivity

C/C++ builds

Linux development

Leadership

CI pipelines

Tools

Make

CMake

Buck/Bazel

Docker

Job description

Everpure is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to define the multi-year architecture for build infrastructure within the Hyperscale organization. You will lead high-ambiguity technical work, set platform direction, and raise the engineering bar across teams to accelerate the entire hyperscale development workload.

You will own build orchestration across the line, drive improvements in speed, reliability, and reproducibility, and mentor engineers while collaborating with engineering managers to