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Zoox

Senior Software Engineer, Build Infrastructure

$180K–$276K

Foster City, CA +1 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026

Location
Foster City, CA
Seattle, WA
Experience
8+ years of experience; minimum 2 years of expertise with Bazel or similar systems like Buck or Pants.
Education
Bachelor's degree in an engineering, mathematics, or related field.

About the job

Own and improve Zoox’s Bazel-based build infrastructure, tooling, and workflows for compiling and testing safety-critical autonomous vehicle software at scale.

What you'll do

  • Evolve the core Bazel ecosystem and optimize build speed, incremental builds, and the remote build platform.
  • Develop custom Bazel rules and tooling using Starlark, and integrate software quality tools into development workflows.
  • Build tools and dashboards that help developers improve software quality and ship faster.

What they ask for

  • Bachelor's degree in an engineering, mathematics, or related field.
  • 8+ years of experience.
  • At least 2 years of expertise with Bazel or similar systems such as Buck or Pants.
  • Linux experience, familiarity maintaining large polyglot code bases, and comfort writing Python.

Nice to have

  • C++ experience.
  • Experience contributing to open source bazel.

Pay

USD 180,000–276,000 per year (base salary)

Tools

Bazel, Buck, Pants, Linux, Python, Starlark, Engflow

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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)