Bazel Platform Sales Engineer

The Bazel Platform Sales Engineer is a hybrid technical and customer-facing role responsible for driving the technical success of prospective customers evaluating Aspect’s Bazel build platform. You will be the primary technical expert in the sales cycle—mapping engineering pain points to Aspect’s solutions, designing migration strategies, demonstrating the platform, and guiding teams through proof-of-concepts.

This role is ideal for someone who understands modern build systems, developer tooling, monorepo patterns, and Bazel—or is eager to become an expert—and loves helping engineering teams solve real bottlenecks.

Summary

• Serve as the lead SE for Aspect Workflows platform trials beginning with demo calls and technical discovery, and continuing through to the platform sale. 
• Earn commission on top of base for prospects that convert to paid customers. 
• Build out a professional process for technical discovery, kick-off, trial and conversion with a focus on enterprise sales. 

Technical Pre-Sales & Customer Discovery

• Lead technical discovery sessions with engineering leaders and development teams.
  
• Diagnose customer challenges across build performance, CI/CD, monorepo strategy, developer productivity, and tooling inefficiencies.
  
• Translate technical problems into clear recommendations for adopting Aspect’s Bazel solutions.
  

Product Demonstrations & Technical Deep Dives

• Deliver compelling demos of the Aspect.build platform, remote build execution, caching, and dev-tooling features.
  
• Explain Bazel concepts (rules, targets, hermeticity, caching, dependency graph structure) in a way tailored to the customer’s existing stack.
  
• Walk engineering teams through migration paths from current build systems to Bazel.
  

Solution Architecture & Proof-of-Concepts

• Design high-level Bazel adoption plans, migration strategies, and integration workflows.
  
• Assist in scoping and guiding customer POCs, pilots, and technical evaluations.
  
• Prepare technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and enablement materials.
  

Sales Collaboration

• Partner closely with Account Executives on deal strategy, value articulation, and technical positioning.
  
• Support RFP/RFI responses with accurate technical detail.
  
• Provide clear, concise technical writing for proposals and customer communication.
  

Customer Technical Advisory

• Build strong relationships with engineering stakeholders—acting as a trusted advisor on build systems and dev-ex best practices.
  
• Provide feedback to Product and Engineering on customer requirements and emerging market needs.
  
• Stay current on developer-tooling trends, CI/CD evolution, monorepo design patterns, and Bazel ecosystem changes.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Developer Advocate, or similar technical-customer role.
  
• Strong understanding of build systems, developer tooling, or CI/CD (e.g., Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle, Blaze, Nx, or similar).
  
• Ability to explain technical topics to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders with clarity.
  
• Hands-on experience with one or more modern programming languages (Java, Go, Python, C++, TypeScript, etc.).
  
• Familiarity with monorepos, distributed build systems, remote execution, or caching concepts.
  
• Excellent presentation, demo, and communication skills.
  
• Ability to lead technical evaluations, architecture conversations, and proof-of-concepts.
  
• Willingness to travel for key customer meetings or industry events.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience working with Bazel—rules creation, migration, performance tuning, or CI integration.
  
• Experience with large-scale codebases or enterprise engineering environments.
  
• Understanding of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and distributed systems fundamentals.
  
• Prior work in developer tools, platform engineering, or build & release engineering.
  
• Comfort creating light demos, scripts, reproducible examples, or technical artifacts to support sales.

• Work with industry leaders who helped develop Bazel and modern build systems at Google.
  
• Shape the future of developer productivity and reproducible builds for enterprise-scale software.
  
• A remote-first, engineering-led culture with strong open-source roots.
  
• Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and flexible work arrangements.