Senior Build Engineer – Bazel Expert

Take technical ownership of a build system that powers some of the most played mobile games on the planet. As a Senior Build Engineer, you’ll help architect and evolve a multi-platform Bazel setup used by hundreds of developers, directly influencing speed, reliability, and workflow efficiency across a large-scale game production environment. 

Game Boost

Enabling Smooth Game Production

We provide remote-friendly studios with stellar game developers in all crafts.

Free to check us out on LinkedIn

Mission Brief

In this role, you’ll design and scale a Bazel-based build system for multiple platforms. You’ll collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer workflows, lead technical design, and share best practices through training and documentation.

Details:

• Start date: ASAP

• Duration: 6 months (extension possible)

• Occupancy rate: 100% assignment (Full-time)

• Level: Senior

• Work set-up: Remote (Stockholm preferred but not required)

• Time zone: ±1 CET / 

Your player profile:

🎯 Your Player Profile:
- Deep experience designing and maintaining Bazel-based build systems
- Familiarity with how C++ projects compile
- Solid understanding of Starlark for writing Bazel rules
- Skilled at identifying and resolving technical debt
- Able to communicate and document complex systems clearly
- Experience leading architecture discussions and mentoring others

⭐ Bonus XP:
- Experience working with CMake as a meta-build system
- Familiarity with BuildBuddy (SaaS or self-hosted)
- Contributions to Bazel-related open-source projects
- Android build system expertise

🌟 Soft Skills That Shine:
- Strong communicator who can explain complex topics clearly
- Creative, adaptive problem-solver
- Self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership
- Comfortable collaborating across distributed teams

Traits:

We believe that being humble, collaborative, and open-minded will take you a long way and is the right way to go. It's a good foundation, even if we do understand that you possess a lot more personal attributes in addition.

Note: 

We believe that the world of gaming can and should include everyone. 

Neither Game Boost, nor our clients tolerate toxic, intolerant behavior ❌☣️

How to Play!

It's quick and simple since we aim for low manual data entry!

This means that you can use your LinkedIn or upload a profile of your liking. 

Fill in a couple of choice questions that will help us get to know you, your skills, and also understand the basics, like when you're available, location, etc.

Yeah, that's it. 

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