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!

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