Bazel Monorepo Build Engineer

Job Title : Bazel Monorepo Build Engineer
Location : Remote
Duration : 6+ Months

Responsibilities:

We are seeking a highly experienced Bazel Build System Engineer to lead and support the migration of a large-scale multi-GB monorepo to Bazel. This is a niche role requiring deep expertise in Bazel infrastructure design, optimization, and scaling for high-performance development workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the migration of existing build systems to Bazel in a large monorepo context.
• Design, implement, and optimize Bazel build rules, configurations, and remote caching strategies.
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform engineering teams to scale Bazel infrastructure to support 1000+ module builds.
• Integrate Bazel with CI/CD systems (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Buildkite).
• Troubleshoot build and dependency resolution issues in complex codebases (multi-language polyglot environments).
• Establish and enforce build best practices for high developer productivity and reproducibility.
• Provide mentorship and knowledge transfer to internal engineering teams on Bazel usage and optimization.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of hands-on experience working with Bazel in production-scale environments.
• Proven migration experience to Bazel from legacy build systems (e.g., Gradle, Make, Buck, Pants).
• Deep understanding of Bazel internals, including rule writing, query usage, and sandboxing.
• Experience managing multi-GB, multi-language monorepos with hundreds or thousands of modules.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages supported by Bazel (e.g., Java, Go, C++, Python).
• Experience with remote build execution (RBE) and caching strategies for Bazel.
• Strong CI/CD integration experience with enterprise tooling.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Exposure to monorepo management tooling and practices.
• Familiarity with containerization, Kubernetes, and cloud-native CI/CD platforms.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Starlark.
• Previous experience working in a high-scale SaaS or platform engineering environment.

Thanks & Regards,

Jagga Rao

Senior Executive - International Consulting