Software Engineer - Build Platform

About the role

The Developer Experience team at Optiver is seeking a strong engineer to improve the software development lifecycle. You will design and operate build platforms at scale to accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and enhance developer productivity. This role involves building tools, systems, and pipelines that enable engineers to move from idea to production with greater speed and confidence.

Responsibilities

• Shape the future of C++ builds at Optiver by designing and rolling out modern build systems that accelerate build times, improve reliability, and create a more consistent developer experience.
• Develop common build libraries, reusable CI/CD pipelines, and container images used across the company.
• Build observability into our platform so we can measure performance, reliability and adoption, and use that data to guide further improvements.
• Improve build performance at scale through incremental execution, caching, dependency analysis and efficient scheduling.
• Design workflows that enable agents to compile, test, diagnose failures, and validate changes reliably with minimal human intervention.
• Work closely with engineering teams to understand where existing workflows create friction and turn those problems into scalable solutions.
• Help teams adopt new tools and working practices, balancing standardisation with the needs of different codebases and engineering groups.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging tools in the developer experience and build systems space, helping guide our adoption of best-in-class solutions.

Required skills

• C++
• Build systems
• Developer tooling
• Bazel
• Buck2
• Pants
• Gradle
• CI/CD
• GitHub Actions
• Buildkite
• Jenkins
• Observability
• Software development lifecycle

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus
• 27 paid vacation days
• Daily breakfast and lunch
• Commuting expenses support
• Private medical insurance
• Pension scheme
• ClassPass fitness membership
• Training and continuous learning opportunities
• International transfer opportunities

About the Company

At Optiver, our mission is to continuously improve the market. By providing liquidity and accurate pricing in various financial instruments, to multiple exchanges across the world, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets.