Who we are:
Glydways is reimagining what public transit can be. We believe that mobility is the gateway to opportunity—connecting people to housing, education, employment, commerce, and care. By making transportation more accessible, affordable, and sustainable, we empower communities to thrive and unlock economic and social prosperity.
Our mission is to revolutionize transit with a solution that delivers high capacity, exceptional user experiences, unmatched affordability, and minimal environmental impact.
The Glydways system is a groundbreaking network of carbon-neutral, interconnected transit pathways powered by standardized autonomous vehicles on dedicated roadways. Operating 24/7 with on-demand access, it offers personalized and efficient mobility—without the burden of heavy upfront infrastructure costs or ongoing taxpayer subsidies.
With Glydways, we’re building more than a transportation system; we’re creating a future where everyone, everywhere, has the freedom to move.
Meet the team:
The Developer Platform team as a part of Software Foundations and Architecture is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that enables all developers to track, build, deploy and operate our software. From the build system everyone uses, to the tools used to submit and deploy changes, to the cloud infrastructure they use to operate it - we support the entire development experience. The Developer Platform team forges the tools that empower the entire software engineering organization while working with engineers from almost every team.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design, architect and take a central role in developing and maintaining a multilanguage Bazel build system supporting C++, Python, Go, and Typescript.
- Design and implement scalable integrations that seamlessly connect Bazel with the Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines. This includes defining and automating the workflows for triggering builds, managing build artifacts, and ensuring proper handoffs between Bazel commands.
- Establish, maintain, and rigorously debug Bazel’s remote execution and caching infrastructure proactively analyzing and optimizing caching strategies to ensure maximum developer productivity and build consistency.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance developer toolchains and workflows, including build, lint, code coverage, and testing support for C++, Python, and Go languages.
- Optimize build performance, specifically focusing on reducing overall build times and increasing the efficiency of the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.
- Design and implement basic monitoring services to track the performance and stability of internal processes and systems.
- Port and seamlessly integrate standard, non-Bazel-native build and development tools into the existing Glydways Bazel build ecosystem.
- Establish and maintain best practices for using Bazel across all engineering teams, ensuring consistency in build definitions, dependency management, and caching strategies.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Expert-level knowledge of the Bazel build system and other tools in the software development cycle, including: git, linting, GitHub, code review, testing frameworks and deployment frameworks.
- Deep knowledge of Starlark for custom rule development, defining toolchains, and ensuring hermeticity and reproducibility of builds.
- Must be able to create, maintain, and optimize Bazel rule sets from scratch to define and manage complex build dependencies across multiple languages and platforms
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD best practices and principles. Direct experience with Buildkite is a plus.
- Experience with Linux operating systems in both day to day development and operational environments.
- Bonus knowledge of AWS or other similar cloud platforms.
Glydways provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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What We Do
Glydways, Inc. is an American transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, CA. The company specializes in the design, manufacture, installation and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium and extremely high capacity needs.
Founded in 2016 by engineer and entrepreneur Mark Seeger, the company was started with the goal of providing affordable mobility for communities across the world. This goal is founded in the belief that access to affordable housing, employment, education and care lead to economic and social prosperity, and the key to this equity is mobility for as many people as possible.
Lead by Gokul Hemmady who serves as CEO, the company’s core objectives are to provide a 24/7 mobility service solution that is environmentally net-negative in terms of greenhouse gas production (GHG), and, inherently profitable. GHG-negative is achieved through the invention and use of power-efficient technologies to reduce the watt-hours-per-person-per-unit-distance traveled, and, photovoltaics embedded into the infrastructure. Economic sustainability is achieved by designing for operational costs that are inherently lower than revenue collected when selling a ride. The key comes from decoupling the unit-costs from the utilization of the system, something that is not possible with existing public/mass transportation systems. By being financially sustainable, Glydways relieves municipalities of the vast annual subsidies required to operate existing solutions, which are inherently unprofitable and thereby a fiscal burden to public budgets. Further, the Glydways business model allows for private capitalization of entire systems.
Glydways provides the highest capacity, at the lowest cost, with the best user experience, and the lowest greenhouse gas footprint of any mobility solution, providing a personal, on-demand, and point-to-point journey with no stops between origin and destination
