Bazel Expert (PT or FT) – Professional Services, Aspect Build

As a part-time or full-time Bazel Expert on the Professional Services team, you’ll work directly with Aspect Build’s enterprise customers to design, implement, and optimize Bazel-based build systems across polyglot environments.

You’ll act as both a trusted technical advisor and a hands-on engineer, helping teams adopt best practices for Bazel migration, performance tuning, rule development, and integration with CI/CD pipelines.

This role combines deep Bazel expertise, customer-facing consulting, and collaboration with Aspect’s engineering and product teams to shape both our service delivery and product evolution.

• Lead customer engagements focused on Bazel adoption, migration, and optimization.
  
• Design and implement Bazel configurations, rules, and remote execution strategies for multi-language monorepos.
  
• Integrate Bazel with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Buildkite, GitLab) and developer workflows.
  
• Troubleshoot complex build and test issues, improving performance, reproducibility, and maintainability.
  
• Collaborate with Aspect Build engineers to contribute enhancements and best practices to the Aspect Workflows platform and open-source tools.
  
• Mentor customer teams on Bazel usage, build philosophy, and ecosystem components.
  
• Document solutions, write technical guides, and contribute to reusable internal playbooks.
• Act as a feedback conduit between customers and Aspect’s Product and Engineering teams.

Required:

• 4+ years of experience working with Bazel in production environments.
  
• Proven success designing, maintaining, or migrating large Bazel-based build systems.
  
• Strong background in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go, C++, Rust, TypeScript).
  
• Experience writing or customizing Starlark rules.
  
• Familiarity with remote execution (RBE), build caching, and hermetic builds.
  
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex dependency or performance issues.
  
• Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with customer engineering teams.
  

Preferred:

• Experience with other build systems (e.g., Buck, Pants, CMake, Gradle) and their migration paths to Bazel.
  
• Familiarity with Aspect Workflows, cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure), or self-hosted build systems.
  
• Background in developer productivity, CI/CD, or platform engineering.
  
• Prior consulting, customer success, or professional services experience.
  
• Contributions to the Bazel open-source community.

• Work alongside the creators and core contributors to the Bazel ecosystem.
  
• Shape the future of how leading software teams build and test at scale.
  
• Engage with top engineering organizations across industries.
  
• Remote-first, engineering-driven culture with deep technical collaboration.
  
• Competitive compensation, equity participation, and comprehensive benefits.