Senior Build Engineer
May Mobility
May Mobility is transforming cities through autonomous technology to create a safer, greener, more accessible world. Based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May develops and deploys autonomous vehicles (AVs) powered by our innovative Multi-Policy Decision Making (MPDM) technology that literally reimagines the way AVs think.
Our vehicles do more than just drive themselves - they provide value to communities, bridge public transit gaps and move people where they need to go safely, easily and with a lot more fun. We’re building the world’s best autonomy system to reimagine transit by minimizing congestion, expanding access and encouraging better land use in order to foster more green, vibrant and livable spaces. Since our founding in 2017, we’ve given more than 300,000 autonomy-enabled rides to real people around the globe. And we’re just getting started. We’re hiring people who share our passion for building the future, today, solving real-world problems and seeing the impact of their work. Join us.
Job Summary
The Build Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of the company's automated Continuous Integration (CI) systems. This role ensures fast, reliable, and consistent delivery of software products from source code commit through to release.
Essential Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain build systems
- Optimize build performance and reliability
- Collaborate with teams to improve developer experience
- Troubleshoot and resolve build issues
- Automate build and deployment processes
- Monitor and optimize CI/CD pipelines
- Ensure build systems are scalable and maintainable
- Monitor and improve build system performance
- Partner closely with release team to build processes and systems to efficiently release software
- Work with engineering enablement to build tooling for delivery of releases to fleet of vehicles
- Identify useful new technologies that can improve efficiency and reliability and incorporate them into build release workflows, development tools, and processes.
- Design and implement configuration management system
- Participate in an on-call rotation for critical services
- And any additional tasks as required by your manager
Skills and Abilities
Success in this role typically requires the following competencies:
- Ability to undergo a driving record check
- Clear written communication and the ability to align folks on a plan before executing
- Excellent attention to detail and rigorous testing methodology
- Identify complex problems and devise optimal and innovative solutions that often cross organizational boundaries
- Bias for action and an intense customer focus
- Ability to mentor staff of various skills and personalities
Qualifications and Experience
Candidates most successful in this role typically hold the following qualifications or comparable knowledge or experience:
Required
- B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or an equivalent degree
- Minimum of [3-5] years of experience in a dedicated Build Engineering, Release Engineering, or DevOps role.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms and tools like Gitlab and gitlab runners
- Experience managing and deploying complex configurations
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as DataDog
- Experience with containerization technologies (docker and kubernetes)
- Highly collaborative mindset and strong communication skills
- Experience multiple professional software languages such as C/C++, Rust, Python, and Bash
- Experience with various C/C++ build tools such as make, meson, ninja, llvm
Desirable
- M.S. Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and 10+ years of industry experience
- Demonstrated experience optimizing builds for complex codebases across multiple repositories
- Experience managing dependencies for large projects
Physical Requirements
- Standard office working conditions which includes but is not limited to:
- Prolonged sitting
- Prolonged standing
- Prolonged computer use
- Travel required? - Minimal: 1%-10%
Benefits and Perks
- Comprehensive healthcare suite including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability plans. Domestic partners who have been residing together at least one year are also eligible to participate.
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Healthcare and Dependent Care Accounts available.
- Rich retirement benefits, including an immediately vested employer safe harbor match.
- Generous paid parental leave as well as a phased return to work.
- Flexible vacation policy in addition to paid company holidays.
- Total Wellness Program providing numerous resources for overall wellbeing
Want to learn more about our culture & benefits? Check out our website!
May Mobility is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetics or any other legally protected basis. Below, you have the opportunity to share your preferred gender pronouns, gender, ethnicity, and veteran status with May Mobility to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring and recruitment processes. Completion of these questions is entirely voluntary. Any information you choose to provide will be kept confidential, and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. If you believe that you will need any type of accommodation, please let us know.
Note to Recruitment Agencies: May Mobility does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, May Mobility does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.