Engineering Manager, Bazel & Remote Build Execution

Apple • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Apple Services Engineering (ASE) builds and operates infrastructure behind Apple’s services. ASE DevX provides the tools and platforms engineers use to build, test, and ship. The Bazel team builds and operates Apple’s Bazel toolchain, including its wrapper CLI, Bazel Central Registry mirror, shared rulesets, and remote build execution platform. The team makes builds fast, hermetic, and reproducible and supports large codebases adopting and using Bazel.

The Engineering Manager will own the roadmap for Apple’s Bazel ecosystem and remote build execution platform, lead and grow a team of engineers, and represent Apple in the open-source Bazel community. The role covers platform strategy, remote execution at scale, adoption and migrations, supply-chain security and compliance, developer experience, open-source collaboration, people leadership, and cross-functional alignment.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of software engineering experience in build systems, developer tooling, infrastructure, or distributed systems.
• At least 3 years of engineering management experience, including managing senior engineers and handling hiring, performance, and career development.
• Hands-on experience with a modern build system at scale, such as Bazel, Buck2, Pants, or an equivalent, including dependency graphs, action caching, and remote execution.
• Track record delivering large, multi-quarter infrastructure projects across team boundaries, from scoping and sequencing through delivery and operation.
• Experience operating production services using SLOs, metrics, and telemetry to drive reliability and performance decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to influence engineers and senior leadership.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Deep Bazel expertise, including Starlark rules and providers, toolchains and platforms, transitions, Bzlmod, and the Remote Execution API.
• Experience building or operating remote execution and caching systems such as Buildbarn, BuildBuddy, EngFlow, Buildfarm, or an in-house system.
• Experience leading large codebase migrations to a new build system and driving organizational adoption of an internal platform.
• Familiarity with Apple platform toolchains such as Xcode, Swift, Clang, SDKs, and code signing, as well as macOS execution environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, and large-scale compute or batch scheduling.
• Knowledge of software supply-chain security, including SBOMs, provenance, and reproducible builds.
• Contributions to Bazel, rules_apple, rules_swift, rules_go, rules_oci, or related open-source projects.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools and agents to improve engineering productivity.
• Experience managing geographically distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and multi-quarter roadmap for Bazel at Apple, including the developer toolchain, module ecosystem, and remote execution and caching platform.
• Drive the scaling, reliability, and cost efficiency of remote build execution, including execution platforms, custom base images, capacity planning, and service-level objectives.
• Partner with product engineering organizations to move large, complex codebases onto Bazel, balancing the team’s expertise and tooling with migration work owned by customer teams; measure results through build time, reliability, and developer satisfaction.
• Ensure builds meet Apple’s security and compliance requirements, including SBOM generation, provenance, and hermetic dependency management, through platform defaults.
• Improve developer experience through build UIs and observability, failure triage, local and CI parity, and AI-assisted workflows for build maintenance and migration.
• Contribute upstream to Bazel and its rule ecosystem where it serves Apple, and build relationships with maintainers and the wider community.
• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of senior and staff engineers; run a sustainable support and on-call model; and build a culture of technical rigor, ownership, and customer empathy.
• Align priorities with partner infrastructure teams, including CI, compute, artifact management, and security.
• Communicate trade-offs and status to senior leadership and make the case for investment based on measured impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager