Senior Software Engineer - Bazel Tools

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

The team is growing rapidly, both with Datadog and as we absorb other repositories into the monorepo. As a senior software engineer on the team, you will own projects from start to finish, both greenfield and brownfield. You will gain first-hand understanding of what Datadog developers need, and inform our roadmap.

What it asks for · 5

• An expert in Bazel and/or one of the languages listed above.
• A well-rounded engineer. You must broadly understand the various types of software projects that are built, tested, and packaged with our tools.
• Both careful and fearless. The changes we make impact the velocity of hundreds of engineers. They are risky but necessary.
• User-focused. We help Datadog engineers to use the tools that we develop, and continuously improve their usability, so they don’t need our help the next time.
• Ideally, you have experience working with a large codebase.

What the job covers

• Invent build, test and packaging tools that are simpler and more reliable to use.
• Push performance and cost efficiency at scale, raising cache hit rates and cutting CI times and compute spend across millions of targets.
• Treat CI like SREs treat prod, making sure our pipelines are green and fast.
• Prepare, run, and finish complex migrations.
• Contribute back to the Bazel ecosystem, upstreaming fixes and shaping features we depend on.

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• tools5×
• build4×
• engineer4×
• bazel3×
• build test2×
• develop2×
• developers2×
• finish2×
• language2×
• millions2×
• monorepo2×
• projects2×
• software2×
• treat2×
• understand2×
• value2×

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