Staff Software Engineer, Developer Automation - Santa Clara, United States
Originally posted 9 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading d-Matrix's Bazel build-out, focusing on completing an in-progress migration and designing distributed build infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Complete the Bazel migration, including the hardest remaining components.
- Migrate the test suite to Bazel, with correct tagging and sharding, and route hardware-dependent tests to executors that have the hardware.
- Design, deploy, and operate remote execution in production.
- Build hermetic toolchains and reproducible builds across developer machines, CI, and hardware-attached runners.
- Establish a build-time baseline, then reduce median incremental build time and CI critical path.
- Evolve the CI/CD system to keep pace with agent-assisted development.
What you'll need
- Deep Bazel experience as an owner: custom rules, toolchains, and target graph design in a large repository.
- Experience migrating a real codebase onto Bazel, including the long tail.
- Hands-on experience deploying and operating remote caching or remote execution, self-hosted or vendor-provided.
- Experience with hermetic, reproducible, and observable builds, including custom toolchains.
- Strong knowledge of C++, Rust, Python, and container image builds.
- Persistence in debugging non-reproducible builds and unexplained cache misses to root cause.
Nice to have
- Experience migrating test suites to Bazel.
- Kubernetes-based executor pools.
- Embedded or firmware cross-compilation.
- Open source contributions to the Bazel ecosystem.
Skills: Bazel migration, remote execution, hermetic toolchains, reproducible builds, CI/CD system
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 51-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
912
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Median days open
51 d
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Median salary
$229k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | d-Matrix | All employers we track in this specialty (912 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 912 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 18 | 6078 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 13 d | 51 d (−38 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $229k |
Skills observed across this category: Bazel migration, remote execution, hermetic toolchains, reproducible builds, CI/CD system
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 250 open roles · median 49 d
- Qualcomm · 60 open roles · median 61 d
- AMD · 51 open roles · median 28 d
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- Graphcore · 38 open roles · median 101 d
- Intel Corporation · 33 open roles · median 21 d
How we counted: 912 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 9 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.