Senior Software Engineer - Build & Release

Be Part of Building the Future

Dremio is the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, serving hundreds of global enterprises, including Maersk, Amazon, Regeneron, NetApp, and S&P Global. Customers rely on Dremio for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem lakehouses to power their data mesh, data warehouse migration, data virtualization, and unified data access use cases. Based on open source technologies, including Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow, Dremio provides an open lakehouse architecture enabling the fastest time to insight and platform flexibility at a fraction of the cost. Learn more at www.dremio.com.

About the role

In this role you will work on the Dremio build systems and get opportunities to design and implement CI/CD systems and developer productivity solutions. The primary focus of this role is our Maven, Bazel and Gradle build step in the CI system. You will be responsible for analyzing software engineering practices, identifying areas of improvement, and implementing changes to increase efficiency and effectiveness across the organization.

Bring your industry experience to improve the efficiency and scale of Dremio’s infrastructure via innovation on tooling and methodologies. You should have empathy for developers, passion for engineering productivity, and experience delivering scalable distributed systems.

What you’ll be doing

• Design, implement, and maintain build systems: This is the heart of the role. It includes selecting appropriate tools (like Maven, Bazel, and Gradle), configuring them, and ensuring they work efficiently.
• Automate the build process: Creating scripts and workflows to compile, link, package, and deploy software automatically, reducing manual intervention and errors.
• Optimize build performance: Identifying bottlenecks and improving build times through techniques like caching, parallelization, and dependency management.
• Manage build artifacts: Storing and managing the output of the build process (executables, libraries, etc.) using artifact repositories (like Artifactory, Nexus).
• Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain exceptional quality and deepen your understanding of the system architecture and implementation
• Troubleshooting and debugging build issues: Diagnosing and resolving problems that arise during the build process.
• On call responsibilities: You will be part of an on-call rotation to support pre-production issues that are escalated to the DevOps team

What we’re looking for

• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or in a related technical field
• 6+ years of experience on large scale distributed systems
• Experience with at least one cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP
• Deep expertise with Bazel, Maven and the JVM toolchain
• Experience with Terraform, BASH, Docker, Jenkins, and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and cloud architecture.
• Passion for optimization and analyzing complex challenges and intricate details of various compilers and programming languages
• Experience in the Linux shell
• Programming proficiency with at least one language: Python, Java, C++
• Experience writing/improving documentation
• Experience delivering software at scale and maintaining operations excellence
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code
• Drive design decisions with the ability to derive meaningful insights from the collected data, and articulate findings effectively
• Passion for learning and then delivering solutions using latest technologies
• Strong affinity for collaboration and teamwork

Bonus points if you have

• Working knowledge in data lakes and data warehousing
• Proficiency with SQL

Return to Office Philosophy

Workplace Wednesdays - to break down silos, build relationships and improve cross-team communication. Lunch catering / meal credits provided in the office and local socials align to Workplace Wednesdays. In general, Dremio will remain a hybrid work environment. We will not be implementing a 100% (5 days a week) return to office policy for all roles.

What we value

At Dremio, we hold ourselves to high standards when it comes to People, Thinking, and Action. Our Gnarlies (that's what we call our employees) communicate with clarity, drive accountability, and are respectful towards each other. We confront brutal facts and focus on results while operating with a sense of urgency and building a "flywheel". People who like to jump in and drive momentum will thrive in our #GnarlyLife.

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