Senior Software Engineer (Developer Experience)
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Summary
Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team building and scaling core developer infrastructure including Bazel monorepo builds, remote build execution clusters, CI pipelines, and remote development environments for thousands of engineers at Robinhood.
- The DevX team’s mission is to build and operate the core developer infrastructure at Robinhood. Our team owns and scales the systems that thousands of engineers rely on daily, partnering with software developers across the company to make development fast, reliable, and cost-efficient!
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus on building and scaling our developer infrastructure. You will manage and optimize monorepo builds with Bazel and own the remote build execution cluster that powers them, and you will scale CI pipelines to be fast, safe, and reliable across thousands of daily builds
- You will also improve the developer onboarding experience and provide remote development environments to accelerate development workflows. In this role, you will ensure developers can code, test, and deploy with minimal friction. This is an incredible opportunity to make a massive difference for the entire engineering organization!
- Manage and optimize monorepo builds using Bazel and own the remote build execution cluster, ensuring fast, stable builds and short feedback loops for our engineering teams
- Scale CI pipelines to support thousands of daily builds, focusing on speed, safety, and reliability, while managing GitHub repository configurations, pre-merge checks, and test executions
- Improve the developer onboarding experience, reducing time-to-first-commit and making it easy for new engineers to get productive
- Provide and maintain remote development environments to accelerate local workflows and ensure developers can code, test, and deploy with minimal friction
- Experience building and maintaining developer infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, or large-scale build systems (such as Bazel)
- Proficiency in writing clean, maintainable code in Go or Python
- Experience with distributed or remote build execution systems, and a solid understanding of containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes
- Strong problem-solving skills and a focus on improving developer productivity, onboarding, and engineering workflows