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Build and Developer Productivity Engineer (m/f/d)

Apple· Hardware
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Munich, Germanyfull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Build Engineer focused on Bazel internals, remote execution, and Apple technology integration to improve developer productivity across macOS/iOS/watchOS/tvOS toolchains and Open Source Bazel ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Design, evolve, and maintain a Bazel-based build for system-level software spanning many generations of targets.
  • Own Starlark rules, custom providers, toolchain definitions, platform constraints, transitions, and configuration layering.
  • Build hermetic, deterministic toolchains for macOS/iOS/watchOS/tvOS, including Clang-based C/C++/Obj-C and Swift toolchains.
  • Diagnose and eliminate sources of nondeterminism: Xcode environment leakage, SDK drift, tool version skew.
  • Integrate and tune remote execution systems, specifically BuildBarn. Past experience with other tools in the space like EngFlow, BuildBuddy etc will come in handy.
  • Build and maintain hermetic Apple platform toolchains: SDK extraction and version pinning, Clang/Swift invocation under Bazel, triage Xcode behaviors and port them to uniform, reproducible Bazel actions.
  • Familiarity with tooling to keep Xcode projects and Bazel builds in sync using tools such as Tuist or xcodegen.
  • Build IDE integrations: generating compile_commands.json and Clang module maps etc.
  • Instrument build graph performance: reduce graph depth, action fan-out, and hermetic toolchain overhead, cache misses.
  • Author tools to visualize dependency edges, configuration transitions, and remote execution behavior.
  • Maintain Jenkins pipelines for multi-platform build, test, packaging, and artifact promotion.
  • Define reproducible build and release processes across macOS, iOS and other Apple platforms.
  • Transform test results, code coverage results into information that helps developers focus their efforts.

Qualifications

  • Experience in software engineering and Bazel-focused build systems in system software
  • Deep knowledge of Bazel: Authoring rules, Toolchains (native + custom, especially newer rules based toolchain configuration), Transitions, Configuration + Constraints, Remote Execution APIs
  • Strong understanding of Apple development ecosystems: Xcode, Swift toolchains, SDKs, mach-o formats, and universal binaries
  • Extensive experience with hermetic builds, sandboxing, deterministic builds, and debugging action-cache behavior
  • Solid foundation in C/C++, Swift, or Objective-C
  • Comfortable with Python and Bash for tooling
  • Experience with Jenkins or similar CI infrastructure
  • Migrated complex Apple codebases to and from Xcodebuild and Bazel
  • Experience with Swift toolchain hermeticity and balancing it with compilation speed or custom Clang/Swift wrapper actions
  • Experience optimizing monorepos with hundreds/thousands of targets
  • Hands-on experience with distributed caching, remote test execution, and execution platform modeling
  • Contributions to Bazel, rules_apple, rules_swift, rules_cc, or RBE-related open-source projects

Skills

Required:Bazel rules and toolchainsApple platform knowledgeRemote execution / distributed cachingC/C++, Swift, Objective-CPython & Bash tooling

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Jul 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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