Yandex's current DevTools page lists Bazel in its mobile-development infrastructure stack and identifies Ya make as Yandex's own primary build system.
The page lists Gradle, GN, and Bazel for the mobile-development platform, while describing Ya make as Yandex's own build, test, and debugging system and Bazel as its well-known analogue.
Yandex InfrastructureScope: Yandex mobile-development infrastructure and company-wide Arcadia toolingTool: Ya MakeOpen source ↗
Internal useVery high confidence
Historical evidence 2025-08-25
Scala developer in the DevTools team
An archived Yandex role described a Bazel monorepo used by about one hundred Scala and Java developers across three Yandex Verticals services.
The archived role calls the team's main product a Bazel monorepo containing shared libraries, build infrastructure, and service tooling for Auto.ru, Yandex Real Estate, and Yandex Rent teams.
Let scrubbed actions fall back to local execution when remote execution is enabled
A Yandex-domain contributor added local fallback behavior for scrubbed actions when Bazel remote execution is enabled.
The merged Bazel patch changes execution strategy selection so scrubbed actions can fall back to local execution instead of failing under remote execution.
