Staff Android Software Engineer - Build and Release at Rivianvw.Tech — Palo Alto, CA

# About Us

# Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer specializing in Build DevOps to join our team and support our Build infrastructure, with a focus on Android development. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the Android build ecosystem, including Gradle and Soong, and the expertise required to achieve high-uptime, high-reliability continuous build and deployment in the cloud. You will work on improving our builds in both reliability and performance, eliminating non-deterministic failures, and directly improving developer productivity. You will help shape our practices to achieve a highly resilient system capable of handling hundreds of thousands of monthly builds with zero tolerance for downtime.

# Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of Android CI pipelines, providing immediate, daily support for outages and breakages.
• Implement or develop modern distributed caching mechanisms to ensure CI builds happen in minutes instead of hours, and actively diagnose cache failures, misses, or poison.
• Continuously profile build scans to identify trends and common failure modes, buffering developers from context switching.
• Diagnose non-hermetic and non-deterministic behavior within builds and invent defensive mechanisms to prevent future occurrences.
• Tune builds specifically for the unique constraints imposed by containerization and cloud environments.
• Act as a governing body over tool use across teams, defining best practices for clean, sane builds at a large scale.
• Continuously upgrade systems and align our infrastructure with the latest Android build ecosystem best practices.

# Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Deep domain expertise in DevOps and extensive knowledge of the Android build ecosystem.
• Proven experience using Gradle and Soong for both local builds and high-reliability cloud deployments.
• Knowledge of Bazel, Buck, or other similar build system technologies
• Experience managing build architecture at a massive scale (e.g., hundreds of thousands of builds).
• Strong Git skills (repo tools, submodules, git-lfs).
• Proficient with Linux/Bash/Python scripting.
• Passion for build systems, CI/CD, and eliminating developer bottlenecks.

Preferred Qualifications

• GitLab CI experience.
• Virtualization and containerization environment experience (Docker/Podman) to assist with cloud-constrained build tuning.
• Experience transitioning legacy or "script-heavy" build pipelines into modern, scalable architectures.

## Total Rewards

## Equal Opportunity

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