About the role

Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

BuildBuddy is hiring a Senior SRE to scale and improve reliability for its open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel.

What you’ll do

Plan for growth and scale platform and infrastructure on GCP
Collaborate with the team to identify reliability and resiliency improvements and implement solutions
Improve developer experience through platform reliability and performance work
Debug and fix complex production issues across the stack
Contribute to and understand low-level platform behavior (e.g., Bazel build event protocol) impacting open-source and internal systems

What you’ll bring

Strong understanding of reliability practices, distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures
Extensive Unix/Linux experience and prior experience scaling production systems
Ability to manage priorities and make progress on complex problems with minimal supervision
Strong teamwork skills: open to feedback, and able to mentor others

Nice to have / Encouraged

Expertise across the listed tech areas is not required—BuildBuddy encourages applying even if you don’t match every requirement.

Team & work model

Small, execution-focused team; values curiosity and open-source contributions
Remote work, loosely based out of the San Francisco Bay Area; occasional in-person offsites (about twice/year)
Competitive benefits, including platinum health benefits and equity/comp

About BuildBuddy

BuildBuddy builds an open-core remote build execution platform for Bazel, aiming to make enterprise-grade engineering tooling accessible to everyone. The company focuses on scaling developer infrastructure on cloud platforms while contributing to open-source and internal codebases.

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