About BuildBuddy

BuildBuddy was founded to make developers more productive. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and make them available to everyone.

About the role

Skills: Go, Kubernetes, TypeScript

BuildBuddy was founded to make developers more productive. Today we're solving a small piece of this problem with an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel - but our ambitions are much larger. Our mission is to take the world class engineering tools that are only available to employees of large companies and make them available to everyone.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of how engineers build and test software. You’ll be working directly with engineering organizations developing the most cutting-edge tech.

You will

Build a great customer experience for our users (other engineers!)
Define and prioritize product features, goals, roadmap, and strategy based on your frontline knowledge of customer needs
Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain reliable software
Debug complex production issues across the stack
Resolve customer issues via email, Slack, and video conferencing
Become a trusted technical advisor to our customers
Create or update documentation based on customer interactions
Continually research and learn the current and future best practices of using Bazel

We're looking for someone who

Cares deeply about creating the best possible experience for our customers
Can lead technical discussions and help drive technical decisions
Is comfortable with ambiguity and working outside of their comfort zone
Can manage priorities well when there's a lot to be done
Holds yourself and others to a high bar when working with production
Is able to write high quality code in a programming language (e.g. Golang, Typescript)
Has knowledge of DevOps methodologies and appreciates the value technologies like Kubernetes bring to the software deployment and development process
Is experienced with build tools and CI/CD.

Who you'll work with

Tyler Williams - GitHub: @tylerwilliams, Twitter: @tylerbw
Siggi Simonarson - GitHub: @siggisim, Twitter: @siggi
Brandon Duffany - GitHub: @bduffany, Twitter: @brandon_duffany
Vadim Berezniker - GitHub: @vadimberezniker

What's it like to work at BuildBuddy?

We're a small team of builders that value getting things done over busywork
We value curiosity and encourage employees to contribute to open source projects
We aim to create a warm & welcoming work environment
We treat our coworkers well, and offer platinum health benefits at no cost to employees
We offer generous equity & comp packages, and reward those that help the company grow
We work remotely, but are loosely based out of the San Francisco Bay Area

Technology

We're looking for generalist software engineers to help us fulfill this mission. You'll work across our stack (Golang, Typescript, React, Bazel, Protobuf) to build the next generation of engineering tools. From driving large technical projects to understanding the nitty gritty details of the Bazel build event protocol - you'll have your fingerprints all over our open-source and internal codebases.

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