ContributionLimited confidence
NVIDIA
In 2026, an NVIDIA-domain commit in a public Buck2 fork added native BuckPkgs store outputs and imports.
Adjacent build ecosystem
Bazel-like tools.
Organizations using related graph build systems, distributed-build tools, and remote-execution clients, documented with the same source-by-source standard as the Bazel directory.
Catalog scope
Tool families tracked
A tool appears here as scope, not as an unsupported adoption claim. Company cards are published only after a reviewed public source establishes the specific use.
- Pants / Pants 2
- Buck / Buck2
- BuildXL
- Soong
- reclient
- Goma
- Siso
- JustBuild
- BuildGrid / BuildStream / RECC
- Horde / Unreal Build Accelerator
- Ya Make
- Please
Bazel-like is separate. Organizations using related graph build systems and REAPI clients are hidden from the main directory by default and excluded from its combined value. Financial-size snapshots remain visible here when a defensible public value is available. Browse the full Bazel-like tools catalog below. 20 currently cataloged.
Reviewed adjacent-tool evidence
Companies with receipts.
20 shown · 20 cataloged
BuildXL · Bazel-likeVery high confidence
Microsoft
Microsoft says BuildXL runs more than 150,000 internal builds per day and serves thousands of developers working in large monorepos.
Buck2 · Bazel-likeVery high confidence
Meta
In 2023, Meta said thousands of its developers used Buck2 for millions of builds per day rather than Bazel.
Internal useVery high confidence
Yandex
Yandex's current DevTools page lists Bazel in its mobile-development infrastructure stack and identifies Ya make as Yandex's own primary build system.
Internal useVery high confidence
Epic Games
Epic Games says Horde supports workflows it uses to develop Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and other projects, including remote execution for C++ compilation through UBA.
Goma · Bazel-likeHigh confidence
Viasat
A Viasat engineer report describes the company's Chromium builds using Goma-compatible remote execution, reducing security-patch build time from 24 hours to one hour.
Buck2 · Bazel-likeLimited confidence
Mercury
In 2026, Mercury's GitHub organization maintained a divergent Buck2 fork with remote-execution changes tested against a moderately sized build.
Hiring signalLow confidence
1X
A July 2026 on-site San Carlos role sought CI/CD experience with a broad tool set that included Bazel and Buck2.
Buck2 · Bazel-likeLimited confidence
Opengear
In 2026, Opengear's GitHub organization published a corporate-domain Buck2 fork change for Remote Execution API platform compliance.
Buck2 · Bazel-likeLimited confidence
Amutable
In 2026, a company-domain Amutable commit in a public Buck2 fork added canonical cell paths for execution.
Soong · Bazel-likeModerate confidence
Android Open Source Project
Current Android Open Source Project documentation identifies Soong as AOSP's build system, using Kati and Ninja as components.
Siso · Bazel-likeModerate confidence
Brave
In August 2025, Brave enabled Siso by default for supported targets built on Linux and added company-specific remote-execution configuration.
Siso · Bazel-likeModerate confidence
Chromium
In 2026, the Chrome Build Team's documentation identified Siso as Chromium's primary build system.
Buck2 · Bazel-likeLimited confidence
Embark Studios
In 2023, Embark Studios published a company-domain Buck2 fork commit adding WebAssembly and WASI platform definitions.
Buck2 · Bazel-likeLimited confidence
Oxide Computer Company
In 2025, Oxide Computer Company published a company-domain Buck2 fork commit adding support for the illumos operating system.
Buck2 · Bazel-likeLimited confidence
System Initiative
In 2025, a System Initiative-domain commit in a public Buck2 fork added gRPC keepalive settings for remote execution.
Please · Bazel-likeVery high confidence
Thought Machine
Please's adopters record says Thought Machine uses the build system to build Vault, its cloud-native core-banking platform.
Buck2 · Bazel-likeHigh confidence
Tower Research Capital
In February 2024, a Tower Developer Tools engineer reported helping move development to a monorepo and onboard developers from CMake to Buck2.
Vendor
Yume
Yume offers commercial Bazel and Buck2 migrations, remote execution and caching, hermetic toolchains, CI parity, test selection, and release automation.
Buck2 · Bazel-likeLimited confidence
Zed Industries
In 2026, Zed Industries published a company-domain Buck2 fork change adding cache-upload control to Rust library rules.