Intermediate Distribution Engineer

1 Month ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

GitLab is seeking an Intermediate Distribution Engineer to join their Build team. This role focuses on managing build pipelines, supporting new services, platforms, and architectures, and maintaining existing ones. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring GitLab components are up-to-date, license-compliant, and available across various platforms. Key responsibilities include building and maintaining multi-platform packages for Linux distributions, developing container images, creating build tooling, integrating development team components, collaborating with security teams, managing dependencies, and ensuring quality assurance for installation methods. The position emphasizes proficiency in English for remote and asynchronous work.
Must have:
  • Familiarity with GNU/Linux build toolchains
  • Production experience with container images and tooling
  • Experience with Debian/RHEL and .deb/.rpm packaging
  • Experience with CI systems
  • Advanced Shell Scripting expertise
  • Proficiency in English
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with building cloud-native applications
  • Experience with major cloud providers
  • Knowledge of service scaling strategies
  • Awareness of Observability tools

Job Details

GitLab is an open core software company that develops the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform, used by more than 100,000 organizations. Our mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers our world. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors, significantly accelerating the rate of human progress. This mission is integral to our culture, influencing how we hire, build products, and lead our industry. We make this possible at GitLab by running our operations on our product and staying aligned with our values. Learn more about Life at GitLab.

Thanks to products like Duo Enterprise, and Duo Workflow, customers get the benefit of AI at every stage of the SDLC. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier. All team members are encouraged and expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact across our global organization.

Intermediate Distribution Engineer, GitLab: Build

An overview of this role

As a Distribution Engineer, your work within the GitLab Build team will help us manage the build pipelines, research support for new services, platforms, and architectures, as well as maintain existing ones. You will be tasked with ensuring the components that make up GitLab are up-to-date, license compliant, and available for our users’ platforms and architectures. 

GitLab Build engineering regularly interfaces with broader development teams in supporting newly created features. The GitLab Build team is involved with diverse projects and tasks that include assisting community packaging efforts.

Some interesting links about the team and role:

What you’ll do  

  • Multi-Platform Packages: Build and maintain packages for supported Linux distributions and architectures. Participate in product release activities.
  • Container Images: Develop and maintain official GitLab container images
  • Build Tooling & Infrastructure: Develop and maintain tools that enable efficient component building
  • Integration Services: Ensure development team components integrate seamlessly into GitLab packages
  • Security Partnership: Collaborate with Security teams to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities, proactively improve posture and footprint.
  • Dependency Management: Maintain up-to-date, secure dependencies across all components
  • Documentation & Self-Service: Create guides and provide infrastructure enable and facilitate development teams working independently
  • Cloud Marketplace: Manage listings and integrations with major cloud providers
  • Installation Experience: Maintain install, update, and upgrade documentation and processes pertaining to GitLab installation and setup
  • Quality Assurance: Ensure all installation methods are thoroughly tested before release
  • Code License Management: Ensure compliance across all bundled dependencies
  • Partner Certifications: Submit components and packages to partners for validations and certifications

What you’ll bring 

  • Familiarity with GNU/Linux build toolchains (autotools, make, cmake, gcc, etc.)
  • Production experience with building container images and container build tooling
  • Experience with Debian and RHEL based systems, and building .deb and .rpm packages
  • Experience using Continuous Integration systems (e.g., GitLab CI, GitHub Action, Jenkins, Travis)
  • Advanced Shell Scripting expertise in production environments, including the ability to write and maintain complex scripts (Ruby, Golang, Python, or Rust are a plus)
  • Familiarity with building and packaging cloud native applications
  • Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
  • Experience with major cloud providers (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Knowledge of service scaling and rollout strategies. (Desirable)
  • Awareness of Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc) is a plus

About the team

The Build team is focused on producing artifacts including system packages, container images, and related components like marketplace listings alongside the tooling required to create and maintain them. We serve as the bridge between development teams and end users, providing tooling and expertise that enables efficient component building while delivering installation experiences that are simple, secure, and dependable.

In addition, the Build team is also responsible for reviewing a large number of MR's authored outside the team. These include dependency and security updates for other bundled components like PostgreSQL, Consul, Patroni.

How GitLab will support you

Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application.

 


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