Backend Engineer, Distribution: Build

About the work 
The Distribution Build team closely partners with our greater engineering organization to build and distribute GitLab services. The build team is focused on producing artifacts including system packages, container images, and related components like marketplace listings along with the tooling required to create and maintain them. 
As our new Backend Engineer, you 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. 
Distribution Build engineering regularly interfaces with broader development teams in supporting newly created features. The Distribution Build team is involved with diverse projects and tasks that include assisting community packaging efforts.
 Check out some team demo’s here!
What you will do

 
Manage access controls, permissions, and CVE patches
 
Maintaining the install, update, and upgrade pages
 
Work on Dependency updates, License management and submissions to partners for validations/certifications
 
Build and maintain the infrastructure used for creating the various installation methods

What you will bring 

 
Familiarity with multi-stage build systems
 
Production experience with building Docker images and docker build tooling.
 
Experience with Debian and RHEL based systems, and building/packaging archives such as .deb and .rpm
 
Experience using Continuous Integration systems (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, Travis).
 
Experience with Ruby in production (Golang is a nice bonus)
 
Familiarity with building and packaging cloud native applications.

About the team
The Distribution team is composed of two subgroups: Distribution:Build and Distribution:Deploy. The Build team is focused on producing artifacts including system packages, container images, and related components like marketplace listings along with tooling required to create and maintain them. The Deploy team is focused on installation and upgrade mechanisms to ensure smooth deployments. This includes system integration, scripting, templating, and related configuration management tooling.
In addition to product deliverables, both groups review a large number of MR's authored outside the team. These include dependency and security updates along with configuration controls and other bundled components like PostgreSQL, Consul, Patroni.
How GitLab will support you

 
All remote, asynchronous work environment
 
Unlimited PTO (paid time off)
 
GitLab is home to many dedicated Team Member Resource Groups
 
Benefits to manage your health, wealth, and well-being regardless of location
 
Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
 
A personal growth and development budget per year
 
Parental leave: 16 weeks
 
Home office support

 
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.