Senior Distribution Engineer, GitLab: Build

1 Month ago • All levels • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

GitLab is seeking a Senior Distribution Engineer for its Build team. This role involves managing build pipelines, supporting new services, platforms, and architectures, and maintaining existing ones. Responsibilities include building and maintaining packages for Linux distributions and architectures, developing and maintaining official GitLab container images, and creating build tooling and infrastructure. The engineer will integrate development team components into GitLab packages, collaborate with security teams on vulnerability mitigation, manage dependencies, and create documentation for self-service. Additionally, the role involves managing cloud marketplace listings, maintaining installation and upgrade processes, ensuring quality assurance, and managing code license compliance. The ideal candidate will have familiarity with GNU/Linux build toolchains, production experience with container image building, and experience with Debian and RHEL systems.
Must have:
  • Familiarity with GNU/Linux build toolchains
  • Production experience building container images
  • Experience with Debian/RHEL packaging
  • Proficiency in English (written and verbal)
  • Advanced Shell Scripting expertise
Good to have:
  • Experience with CI systems (GitLab CI, Jenkins)
  • Experience with cloud-native application building
  • Experience with major cloud providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)
  • Knowledge of service scaling and rollout strategies
  • Awareness of Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
Perks:
  • Benefits for health, finances, and well-being
  • All-remote, asynchronous work environment
  • Flexible Paid Time Off
  • Team Member Resource Groups
  • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Growth and development budget
  • Parental leave
  • Home office support

Job Details

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Senior 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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