BuildBuddy
Developer Tools · DevOps & Platform Engineering
4open roles
$3.2Mlatest round · Venture round · Dec 2020 · 5 yr ago
4backers · Y Combinator, avra
10+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, BuildBuddy is a software technology enterprise specializing in developer productivity tools and enterprise build infrastructure. The company provides a managed, cloud-native platform built around the open-source Bazel ecosystem, featuring remote build execution (RBE), shared build caching, interactive build dashboards, and performance analytics. By accelerating code compilation, testing, and continuous integration workflows for complex codebases, it enables technology organizations and software engineering teams to optimize developer productivity and scale software delivery.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$3.2M
1 round on record
Latest round
$3.2M
Venture round · Dec 2020 · 5 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
4
open roles
Backers
4
Y Combinator, avra
The money's age
Long since its last round
71 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
30/100
in the news, rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 1, 2020
Raised a round Venture round $3.2M · TechCrunch
Jan 2020
Went through Y Combinator
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
10
best: 69 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Dec 2020 | $3.2M | — | TechCrunch |
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Jobs
≈ $93k – $205k per year (Estimated) · Remote (United States) · Full-Time · 3+ years exp
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Kubernetes
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
4
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
50% ▼
DevOps
25% ▼
Solutions
25% ▼
Financials
Total raised
$3.2M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | $3.2M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at BuildBuddy over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
9
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
73/100
Languages
Go
TypeScript
Cloud & platforms
GitHub
Kubernetes
Linux
Unix
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Shared investors
avraVia a fund
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News
Fix failing builds with bb agent fix
bb agent fix reproduces a failure from a previous invocation and fixes it by editing the current working tree.
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Configure the BuildBuddy CLI with .bbrc
You can now save BuildBuddy CLI options in a .bbrc file. It uses the same
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Analyze slow builds with bb agent analyze-profile
You can now use the bb CLI to analyze a Bazel timing profile with an AI coding agent using bb agent analyze-profile.
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Schedule Workflows with cron expressions
You can now run BuildBuddy Workflows on a recurring schedule using standard cron expressions. This is useful for nightly builds, periodic integration tests, or any job that should run independently of code pushes or pull requests.
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Remote Cache CDC: Reusing Bytes BuildBuddy
BuildBuddy provides enterprise features for Bazel - the open source build system that allows you to build and test software 10x faster.
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Auto-cancel duplicate CI runs on the same branch
Starting June 1, 2026, BuildBuddy will automatically cancel in-progress Workflow runs when a newer run is triggered for the same action on a non-default branch. This helps avoid wasting resources on outdated runs when, for example, several commits are pus
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End-to-end CDC support
We're excited to announce end-to-end content-defined chunking (CDC) support for Bazel remote caching in BuildBuddy.
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Run log streaming
In addition to build logs, you can now use the bb CLI to stream bazel run executable output to our servers and view live-updating run logs from the UI.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco
United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff