Software Engineer, Developer Productivity

About the role

We are hiring a Software Engineer to accelerate every other engineer at Chalk by building and owning our internal developer platform, spanning Bazel, CI, release automation, and local tooling.

Key responsibilities

• Own our Bazel build system, including toolchains, dependency management, and remote execution.
• Create a consistent experience for engineers to run and develop Chalk in containerized development environments.
• Establish test and benchmark patterns across the organization.
• Own CI health, focusing on speed and reliability.
• Drive down test flakiness.
• Make C++ and Rust builds and tests faster through toolchain work, caching, remote execution, and dependency hygiene.

Required profile

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, ideally in developer productivity.
• Strong C++ coding experience.
• Solid background in distributed systems.
• Hands‑on Bazel experience, including writing BUILD files, Starlark, and configuring toolchains.
• Ability to work autonomously and make pragmatic trade‑offs.
• Strong communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience (experience outweighs credential).

Required skills

• C++
• Rust
• Python
• Bazel
• Buildkite
• GitHub Actions
• Distributed Systems
• Starlark
• Nix
• Remote execution
• Remote caching