Senior Software Engineer, Continuous Integration
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Zoox. Foster City · full-time · $219,000–$271,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Keep CI builds fast, dependable, and cost-conscious as usage and the codebase grow
- Use modern AI tools to reduce human on-call work in failure triage, developer support, and incident response
- Find integration bottlenecks with software teams, then address them in the CI platform
- Set engineering standards for CI operations and coach other engineers
What you bring
- At least five years in software engineering, including substantial work on platforms, infrastructure, or developer tools
- Practical experience running distributed CI at scale, with Buildkite preferred or a comparable system
- Working knowledge of Bazel or a similar build system, including CI caching and remote execution
- A solid grasp of version control, such as Git
Who this fits
You’ll suit a senior engineer who can own CI performance and reliability across teams while setting technical direction and mentoring colleagues. The role is based in Foster City and is hybrid.
From the employer
In this role, you will:
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Own CI performance, cost efficiency, and reliability end-to-end, at thousands of builds a day and growing
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Rethink CI failure analysis, triage, developer support, and incident response with modern AI tools, shifting first-line work off human on-call
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Work cross-functionally to find where integration slows down and fix it at the platform level, and enable teams to make their CI efficient and reliable
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Set the technical bar for how CI is built and operated, and mentor the engineers around you
Qualifications
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5+ years of software engineering and programming experience, including significant experience in platform, infrastructure, or developer tooling
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Hands-on experience operating a distributed CI system at scale, Buildkite preferred; Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar
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Working familiarity with a modern build system such as Bazel, and with how caching and remote execution interact with CI
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Solid knowledge of version control systems such as Git
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Self-driven and motivated with a strong work ethic and passion for problem solving
Bonus Qualifications
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Cloud compute cost analysis and fleet economics (AWS EC2 instance families, spot, right-sizing)
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Experience dealing with the operational challenges of large monorepos and merge queues
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Experience in "infrastructure as code" tools like Terraform, Helm, and Ansible, and good knowledge of Kubernetes and containers