Member of Engineering (Infrastructure)
Poolside, Remote (EMEA)
The role
Design and implement the build, CI/CD, and tooling infrastructure that Poolside's researchers and engineers rely on every day. You'll join our infrastructure team as the second engineer focused on developer experience, partnering closely with the person who owns this area today while sharing on-call, incident response, and platform ownership with the wider team. You'll make our monorepo fast, our builds reproducible, and our Python ecosystem coherent, leveraging automation to multiply your impact across every team at Poolside.
The team
We were founded in the US and have our home there, but our team is distributed across Europe and North America. We get our fix of in-person collaboration (and croissants) in Paris each month for 3 days, always Monday-Wednesday, with an open invitation to stay the whole week. We also do longer off-sites once a year.
Our team is a multidisciplinary blend of research, engineering, and business experts. What unites us is our deep care for what we build together. We’re in a race that requires hard work, intellectual curiosity, and obsession; to balance this intensity, we’ve assembled a team of low ego and kind-hearted individuals who have built the special culture Poolside has. By building collaboratively and with intention, we create a compounding effect that moves the entire company forward towards our mission: reaching AGI through intelligence systems built for software development.
What you will do
Your mission
Make it seamless for our researchers and engineers to build, test, and ship. You'll take on significant ownership of our build and CI/CD systems, with the support of an established infrastructure team behind you.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for designing and managing the infrastructure required by Poolside's engineers and researchers. Leveraging automation to multiply your impact is essential for this role. Additionally, you will develop tools and solutions aimed at increasing the efficiency of our engineering teams.
What you need
- Build Systems
- Strong hands-on experience with Bazel — writing and maintaining rules, macros, and toolchains
- Familiarity with remote caching and build optimisations
- CI/CD
- Experience setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines, preferably Buildkite
- Comfortable with dynamic pipelines, agent fleet management, and build-time optimization
- Python ecosystem
- Strong Python proficiency, including packaging, dependency management (uv/pip/Poetry), and virtual environments