GRAIL
Staff Software Engineer, Build Systems (Bazel) - #4770
Sunnyvale, CA · Staff+ · Full-time
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$18,075 more — $187,075 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $187,075 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- GRAIL is headquartered in the Bay Area of California, with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom.
- It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies.
- This is a high-leverage role with broad visibility, your work directly accelerates teams working on early cancer detection.
Responsibilities
- Own and improve build-system workflows in our Bazel-based monorepo, including build rules, test execution, dependency management, caching, and build diagnostics.
- Partner with engineering and research teams to identify and remove friction in local development, builds, tests, CI, release workflows, and tooling.
- Build and maintain internal tools, automation, and self-service workflows that reduce repeated manual effort for engineers.
- Diagnose complex build and CI failures across Go, Python, TypeScript, and Java codebases.
- Collaborate with DevOps and platform engineers on AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure where it intersects with build, test, and delivery workflows.
- Establish practical standards, documentation, and reusable patterns for build systems, CI pipelines, and developer tooling.
- Take accountability for ambiguous developer-productivity problems and drive them through to measurable improvements.
- reducing friction in day-to-day engineering workflows and making complex, multi-language systems easier to build, test, and maintain.
- You will own and improve build-system workflows in our Bazel-based monorepo, raise CI reliability and performance, and build internal tooling and self-service automation used across engineering and research.
- GRAIL is an equal employment opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a workplace where every individual can thrive, contribute, and grow.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience working on build systems, CI/CD, or developer productivity / platform tooling.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with a large-scale build system (for example Bazel, Buck, Pants, Gradle, or CMake).
- 2+ years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or a comparable system.
- 3+ years of professional coding experience in one or more of Go, Python, TypeScript, or Java.
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with AWS and containerized workloads on Kubernetes.
Nice to have
- Production Bazel experience, especially in a large, multi-language monorepo.
- Experience with dependency management, hermetic and reproducible builds, and test infrastructure at scale.
- Experience improving developer experience in a mixed-language engineering environment (Go, Python, TypeScript, Java).
- Experience defining and using developer-productivity metrics to prioritize work and demonstrate impact.
- Experience supporting scientific, research, or data-intensive teams, including Python packaging and container image workflows.
- Clear communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of working directly with developers, researchers, and platform engineers.
- Experience mentoring engineers or driving adoption of tooling and standards across teams.
- The posted range reflects our good-faith estimate of the base pay we expect to offer for this position at the time of hire.
Compensation
- The expected, full-time, annual base pay scale for this position is $169k-$223k.
Benefits
- We are a healthcare company, pioneering new technologies to advance early cancer detection.
- This role offers a flexible work arrangement, with the ability to work from GRAIL's office or from home.
- Our current flexible work arrangement policy requires that a minimum of 60%, or 24 hours, of your total work week be on-site.
Company info
- Our mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured.
- We are working to change the trajectory of cancer mortality and bring stakeholders together to adopt innovative, safe, and effective technologies that can transform cancer care.
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