Senior DevOps Engineer (Bazel) - US Remote
Workstate is seeking a DevOps Engineer with deep experience designing, implementing, and operating deployment pipelines built around Bazel. This role focuses on Bazel as part of a build, packaging, artifact, and release platform, including reproducibility, remote caching/execution, CI/CD integration, dependency management, environment promotion, and operational reliability. In addition to Bazel expertise, strong experience with AWS, Terraform, and modern DevOps practices is highly valued. Residents of the United States with the right to work without need for visa sponsorship are eligible for this role. The ideal candidate will typically have 5-7 years of professional experience and have demonstrated many of the following skills: • Strong hands-on experience building and operating deployment pipelines using Bazel • Experience using Bazel from a DevOps/platform engineering perspective, including build orchestration, artifact packaging, caching, remote execution, and release workflows • Strong experience with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation • Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices • Solid experience deploying and operating workloads in AWS • Experience with artifact repositories, container build workflows, and release promotion processes • Experience troubleshooting build performance, pipeline failures, and deployment reliability issues • Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or similar This will make you an exceptional candidate: • Experience managing shared Bazel infrastructure across multiple teams or services • Experience tuning Bazel remote cache and remote execution performance • Experience integrating Bazel with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar CI/CD platforms • Experience supporting containerized deployments to Kubernetes, EKS, or ECS • Experience with secrets management, policy enforcement, and secure software supply chain practices • Familiarity with release engineering, artifact provenance, and reproducible build strategies • Experience building internal platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and deployment safety