Developer Operations / DevOps — Bazel Monorepo
Location: Bristol / London
About Fractile
Fractile was founded in 2022 on the bet that, eventually, the world's most capable AI systems would be limited in their impact by the time taken to produce useful outputs. We bet everything on the logical conclusion: that the only way to truly unlock this latent value, to make speed viable at scale, was to radically re-invent the hardware that we run our frontier AI models on. Ever since, we have been building chips and systems that tackle this problem: how to efficiently generate output at thousands of tokens per second, while handling the complexity and capacity challenges of operating large models at very long contexts.
The workloads that push to the limits of the current frontier are already transformational; it is the technical and economic limits on inference speed that are constraining progress. The defining work of the 21st century will be marked by the engine of inference delivering immense and diffuse chains of intellectual inquiry, in drug discovery, in software engineering, in materials discovery, in any field where progress is driven by deep reasoning and intelligence to resolve complex problems.
The Role
About the Software organisation at Fractile
Developer Experience sits within the Software organisation at Fractile, which is responsible for developing a full software stack for our groundbreaking AI inference systems. That's everything from ML compilers, device drivers and systems firmware, application level runtime and ecosystem integrations, ML and compute libraries, great developer tooling and a full portfolio of simulators, through to datacenter scale workload deployment solutions. At Fractile, we know that a fantastic software stack is a critical and central part of any AI inference solution and it sits at the heart of everything we're doing.
About the team and role
The DevOps team at Fractile owns the Bazel monorepo and CI/CD infrastructure that every engineer in the company depends on — designing the tooling, pipelines, and observability that power everything we build, from ML models and kernel drivers to hardware simulation. The team brings both deep build system expertise and an SRE mindset: owning reliability, debugging CI failures systematically, and giving the engineering organisation clear visibility into how our infrastructure is performing.
As a DevOps Engineer you will design and own Bazel rules and extensions across the stack, scale our monorepo as we grow across Python, C++, Rust, SystemVerilog, and ML workloads, and create reproducible multi-language build pipelines. You will debug and triage CI pipeline failures, optimise CI performance across large compute clusters, build and maintain infrastructure monitoring and observability tooling, and define alerting thresholds, runbooks, and incident response workflows for build and CI infrastructure. You will contribute upstream to Bazel rules we depend on and help shape the developer experience for every engineer at Fractile.
About you
You bring deep build system expertise alongside an SRE mindset. You are systematic in how you approach fault isolation and root cause analysis, and you apply SLO-driven thinking to build reliability and developer productivity. You thrive on high variety — ML, compilers, kernel drivers, simulators, hardware verification — and you understand that your work becomes the foundation every engineer at Fractile builds on. You take that responsibility seriously.
Key Requirements
- 5+ years in software or infrastructure engineering
- 3+ years working with build systems
- Strong hands-on experience with Bazel
- Python scripting and automation skills
- Experience with CI/CD for large-scale products, including debugging and resolving pipeline failures at scale
- Familiarity with infrastructure monitoring and observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar)
- Working knowledge of SRE principles — SLOs, alerting design, incident management, and on-call practice
What We Offer
- Competitive salary: A competitive salary reflective of your experience and the specialist nature of the role
- Equity & Ownership: meaningful equity so everyone shares in the value creation
- Benefits: Private Medical, Dental and Vision, Contributory Pension, 25 Days holiday plus bank holidays and Life/Critical Illness Insurance
- Diverse & fun office: we believe the hardest problems get solved by the broadest range of minds. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a diverse team and building an inclusive environment
Fractile is seeking to increase the clock speed of global progress, one chip at a time. We've recently raised $220M from investors including Founders Fund and Accel and our most important work lies ahead. Join us!
Export controls
Our work involves technologies subject to UK, US and other international export control regulations. Certain roles may require additional eligibility checks to ensure compliance with applicable law. We'll be transparent about this throughout the hiring process.
Skills Required
- 5 years experience in Software Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering
- 3 years of experience with build tools
- Experience building and maintaining advanced CI/CD pipelines for large-scale products
- Proficiency with Bazel
- Scripting and automation skills in Python
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
What We Do
Fractile is developing AI chips designed for efficient AI model inference, aiming to radically improve the speed and cost of running frontier AI models by eliminating memory bottlenecks.
