Staff Android Software Engineer - Build and Release

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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.

* 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.