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Tools and Build Engineer

Radix Trading Experienced Job Board
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 2/19/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/7/2025

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Build & Tools Engineer , your mission is to enhance and maintain our build systems, CI / CD pipelines (continuous integration, continuous deployment), and development tools that power our engineering efforts. The team you would be a part of is responsible for managing a large monorepo, scaling our build processes, and ensuring seamless code integration across the organization. You'll play a key role in streamlining our CI / CD infrastructure using tools like TeamCity, Jenkins, and GitLab CI / CD, while working closely with developers to optimize build and release pipelines.

JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Responsible for maintaining, optimizing, and improving build and deployment systems;
  • Monorepo management : oversee and optimize our large monorepo, ensuring efficient code integration, version control, and dependency management;
  • Maintain and improve our Gerrit-based code review process to ensure fast and reliable integrations across teams;
  • Manage and enhance our build systems, primarily using Bazel (experience with alternative systems such as Pantsbuild, Maven, or Buck is also valued);
  • Design and manage CI / CD pipelines using TeamCity, Jenkins, and GitLab CI / CD, continuously seeking improvements in efficiency and reliability;
  • Collaborate with developers to address technical debt, identify bottlenecks, and lead refactoring efforts to improve system maintainability and performance of the build processes;
  • Package and manage dependencies using Python and C within the build and deployment systems;
  • Drive improvements in version control workflows using Git and establish best practices for managing large, distributed codebases;
  • Work with team members to resolve any build or deployment issues day to day;
  • Responsible for optimizing and automating infrastructure processes;
  • Design and develop additional tools to improve development workflow;
  • Work closely with developers and researchers to improve and optimize software testing;
  • Write clear, maintainable, portable code.

KEY CAPABILITIES

  • 3-5 years of experience working with build systems, CI / CD pipelines, or similar infrastructure roles in a Finance or non-Finance environment;
  • Proven experience managing a large monorepo and addressing the challenges of scaling codebases;
  • Strong experience with build-related workflows and systems like Bazel (or alternatives such as Pantsbuild, Maven, Buck);
  • Extensive experience with CI / CD tools, including but not limited to : TeamCity, Jenkins, and GitLab CI / CD;
  • Proficiency in Python programming, with experience in build and deployment pipelines;
  • Good working knowledge of C / C tool chains;
  • Expertise in build systems in Linux;
  • In-depth knowledge of Git and version control in large, distributed teams;
  • Demonstrated ability to reduce technical debt, including leading refactoring efforts to optimize build and deployment systems;
  • Strong interpersonal skills and problem solving ability;
  • Strong analytical skills.
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