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Deliverables encompass:\nExecuting smooth Bazel migrations\n\nPromoting Bazel ecosystems and engineering expertise through technical conferences, meetups, blog posts, and social media channels - only if you feel comfortable with it.\n\nDeveloping high-quality open-source and internal solutions tailored to Bazel\n\nSupporting pre-sales activities and strategic technical consultancy\n\nDeveloping and delivering training sessions and mentoring engineering teams - only if you feel comfortable with it.\n\nTech stack\nBazel, Starlark, Python\nProject Challenges\nThe engagement is a part of the group that solves problems too hard for the client's own team, even backed by LLMs. Works spans multiple ecosystems, codebase sizes, and setup quality - from helping startups to working on work-class Bazel builds (like those at Airbnb, Databricks, or Uber). 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What matters most is your passion and willingness to develop.\nA few perks of being with us\nBuilding tech community\n\nFlexible hybrid work model\n\nHome office reimbursement\n\nLanguage lessons\n\nMyBenefit points\n\nPrivate healthcare\n\nTraining Package\n\nVirtusity / in-house training\nAnd a lot more!\n\nAccess to the above perks is optional and completely voluntary for B2B contractors","description_format":"text","description_chars":2890,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Home office","Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Custom Software Development"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T11:12:18Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["seen:2","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":96000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/virtuslab-bazel-engineer-expert","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/virtuslab-bazel-engineer-expert.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-30T01:44:46Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1327,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3673,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}}