Staff Build Systems Engineer (C/C++)

Location: Pune Office, on-site

Company

hirify.global develops Infinia Software Defined Storage and its supporting software delivery infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own build workflows from source checkout through compilation, packaging, publication, and installation validation.
• Maintain and modernize build systems for C/C++, Go, and npm-based web UI components.
• Improve developer productivity by reducing clean and incremental build times, strengthening diagnostics, and standardizing local and CI environments.
• Produce versioned container images and Debian/RPM packages, validating dependencies, installation, upgrades, and rollback.
• Support multi-architecture, multi-distribution, build-variant, and release-branch delivery.
• Define technical standards, write designs, review changes, mentor engineers, and coordinate with Development, QA, Release, and DevOps.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software, build engineering, developer infrastructure, or a closely related field.
• Strong Linux compilation and linking knowledge with GCC/Clang and build systems such as SCons, Make, CMake, Meson, Ninja, or Bazel.
• Strong Python and Bash skills for maintainable build tooling and diagnostics.
• Practical experience with Go build tooling, Node.js/npm workflows, Docker-based build environments, and multi-stage images.
• Hands-on Debian and RPM packaging, dependency management, versioning, installation, upgrades, and publication.
• Experience integrating build systems with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent CI platforms and artifact repositories.

Nice to have

• Experience with ccache, sccache, distributed builds, remote execution, or comparable build acceleration technologies.
• Knowledge of hermetic builds, dependency pinning, provenance, SBOMs, signing, or software supply chain security.
• Experience migrating legacy build systems to CMake, Meson/Ninja, Bazel, or comparable platforms.
• Background in storage, networking, operating systems, compilers, or other performance-critical software.
• Experience with build-health metrics, engineering standards, documentation, and self-service developer workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a large, distributed engineering organization spanning multiple repositories.
• Collaborate across Development, QA, Release, and DevOps on product build reliability and delivery.
• Own the technical direction and operational reliability of a complex multi-repository build ecosystem.