1X Technologies
Senior Build Engineer, CI/CD Efficiency
$190K–$230K
San Carlos, CA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 28, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years in Build Engineering, Developer Productivity, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering for Senior; 10+ years for Staff.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Improve and scale 1X’s CI/CD platform and build infrastructure so engineers can develop, test, and release reliable software more efficiently across robotics and cloud platforms.
What you'll do
- Reduce build, test, and deployment times by optimizing pipelines, distributed builds, caching, and resource use.
- Build scalable automation, tooling, and observability to improve developer productivity and CI/CD reliability.
- Partner with software teams and lead cross-functional initiatives to streamline workflows and establish engineering standards.
What they ask for
- Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Bash, or similar automation languages.
- Hands-on experience building and optimizing CI/CD systems with tools such as GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Bazel, Buck2, or CMake.
- Experience supporting Linux development environments and large-scale software engineering workflows.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
Nice to have
- Experience with monorepos, distributed compilation, remote execution, or build caching.
- Experience with developer platforms, automated test infrastructure, cloud platforms, or performance-sensitive engineering organizations.
Pay
$190,000 – $230,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Go, Bash, GitHub Actions, Buildkite, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bazel
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