Senior Distribution Engineer, Gitlab: Build

GitLab is seeking a Senior Distribution Engineer to join the Build team. As a Senior Distribution Engineer, you will manage build pipelines, evaluate support needs for new services, platforms, and architectures, and maintain existing ones. You will keep the components that make up GitLab up to date and license-compliant, and make them available for users' platforms and architectures.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain packages for supported Linux distributions and architectures, including release activities.
• Develop and maintain official GitLab container images and tooling that enables efficient component building.
• Enable development teams to integrate their components into GitLab packages by providing guides and infrastructure that support self-service.
• Collaborate with security teams to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities and maintain secure, up-to-date dependencies.
• Manage cloud marketplace listings and integrations with major cloud providers.
• Maintain and test installation, update, and upgrade documentation and processes before release.
• Ensure license compliance across bundled dependencies.
• Submit components and packages to partners for validation and certification.

Requirements:

• Experience with Linux build toolchains such as autotools, make, CMake, and Nix.
• Experience building container images and using container build tooling in production.
• Experience working with Debian- and Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based systems to build .deb and .rpm packages and package cloud native applications.
• Experience with continuous integration systems, including GitLab's continuous integration feature, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Travis CI.
• Experience writing and maintaining complex shell scripts in production environments.
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English for a remote, largely asynchronous work environment.
• Experience working with major cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure.

Benefits:

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental Leave