Senior Bazel Engineer

### **Join Our Team as a Bazel Engineer at Modus Create!** ### **About us:** Founded in 2011, Modus is a global, fully remote team of world\-class technologists who thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment. We're a digital product engineering partner for forward\-thinking businesses. Our global teams work side\-by\-side with clients to design, build, and scale custom solutions that achieve real results and lasting change, partnering with industry leaders including AWS, GitHub, and Atlassian. We were fully remote before it was cool! Recognized as one of the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies for nine years and a top remote work company by FlexJobs, we have helped some of the world's largest brands deliver powerful digital experiences. As an award\-winning Atlassian partner with a world\-class team, we help organizations innovate and solve complex challenges for Fortune 500 companies and beyond, we want to hear from you. ### **Opportunity!** We are looking for a Bazel Engineer to join our Scalable Builds Group and collaborate with cross\-functional teams on build system architecture and consulting for complex codebases. You will partner directly with client engineering teams to modernize build infrastructure, improve scalability, reliability, and performance, and help shape long\-term build system strategy in large, multi\-language environments. ### **Requirements:** * Senior\-level experience in software engineering * Strong hands\-on experience with Bazel and modern build systems * Experience analyzing and improving large, complex codebases * Experience migrating legacy build systems to Bazel or improving existing Bazel\-based setups * Strong understanding of build system architecture, scalability, and performance optimization * Broad exposure to multiple programming languages and platforms * Experience with developer productivity tooling and CI/CD environments * Consultant mindset: confident yet humble, principled yet pragmatic * Strong written and verbal communication skills * Comfortable presenting technical solutions clearly to clients * Ability to collaborate effectively in a fully remote environment * Daily overlap with US Eastern Time Zone * Reliable high\-speed internet connection ### **Bonus points:** * Experience working with large C\+\+ codebases and multiple toolchains (GCC, Clang/LLVM, Visual C\+\+) * Experience with large Python codebases, ideally with type checking * TypeScript experience for developer tooling or large\-scale frontend/backend systems * Docker experience containerizing builds and CI environments * Contributions to open\-source build tooling (e.g., rules\_haskell, rules\_nixpkgs, rules\_scala) * Active participation in the Bazel community ### **You'll Love:** * Mentoring and coaching clients and teammates from the comfort of home * Deep diving into complex engineering challenges * Working on modern build systems at scale * Sharing knowledge through open source contributions and community engagement * Continuous learning and growing your expertise in scalable build infrastructure * Representing Modus while working with some of the world's most recognized brands By joining our team, you'll be part of a winning squad that plays to each other's strengths and celebrates every success together. Apply now and show us you've got what it takes to take your consulting skills to the next level with Modus Create!