Senior Bazel Engineer

Posted Aug 8

About Qarik

Co-founded by Google Cloud Engineering leaders, Qarik is an IT Solutions company focusing on Google Cloud Platform. We’ve grown to 100 employees in less than three years and continue to attract brand-name (F1000) clients. We are an engineer-driven company where your talent is truly appreciated and maximized. Unlike the traditional model, where consultants can remain long beyond project completion, we enter our engagements with the end in mind. Core to our ethos is the ability to solve complex problems and teach clients to do the same.

Overview of the Role

Qarik is looking for Senior Bazel Engineers proficient with the Bazel build system to help shape, build and deliver products that empower our client’s automation efforts. Our Engineering team focuses on enabling client’s end-to-end journey as they improve agility and resilience, identifying opportunities to reduce IT operations through automation. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining the build systems for our fast-growing client’s transformative software.

Key Responsibilities

  • Implement new features and improve integration with the rest of the build system
  • Troubleshoot and fix performance bottlenecks as the system scales
  • Provide Bazel expertise to product development teams
  • Ensuring new products and features meet customer needs
  • Extensive testing and assessment of product prototypes and features
  • Development and delivery of Bazel focussed tools and features
  • Improve metrics, monitoring, and alerting

Ideal Attributes

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Practical experience developing and maintaining one or more large Bazel builds
  • Practical experience deploying and maintaining remote caching and execution infrastructure
  • Experience with Bazel Build Event Protocol and Remote Execution API
  • Experience working as a Build Engineer in a large organization
  • Experience with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Experience working on developer tools
  • Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills
  • Strong technical acumen, problem solving and troubleshooting skills
  • Experience working in a self-sufficient delivery team with autonomy and accountability

Other Relevant Details

  • Contract to hire
  • Desired Locations: open to any location as long as you have a great internet connection and are willing to overlap the US east coast morning.

Why Qarik?

● Qarik offers a competitive employee compensation and outstanding benefits package.

● The job is fully remote with work hours and vacation flexibility for work/life balance.

● You will work on a team where people respect each other, have a shared goal of customer success, and work together instead of competing against each other or counting the lines of code or number of PRs to meet personal annual OKRs. Most of your teammates think this is the best team they have ever worked on so far in their careers.

● We are using the latest AI tech and pushing the boundaries possible, constantly learning new stuff and creating new cool things together.

Qarik is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For further information, please contact our careers@qarik.com.