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Build Engineer

GitLab, San Francisco
Employment type: 
Full time, Remote Work
Software Engineering, Ruby, Chef, Debian

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Build Engineer

GitLab Inc. is a company based on the GitLab open-source project. GitLab is a community project to which over 1,000 people worldwide have contributed. We are an active participant in this community, trying to serve its needs and lead by example. We have one vision: everyone can contribute to all digital content, and our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write so that everyone can contribute.

We value results, transparency, sharing, freedom, efficiency, frugality, collaboration, directness, kindness, diversity, boring solutions, and quirkiness. If these values match your personality, work ethic, and personal goals, we encourage you to visit our primer to learn more. Open source is our culture, our way of life, our story, and what makes us truly unique.

Top 10 reasons to work for GitLab:

  1. Work with helpful, kind, motivated, and talented people.
  2. Work remote so you have no commute and are free to travel and move.
  3. Have flexible work hours so you are there for other people and free to plan the day how you like.
  4. Everyone works remote, but you don't feel remote. We don't have a head office, so you're not in a satellite office.
  5. Work on open source software so you can interact with a large community and can show your work.
  6. Work on a product you use every day: we drink our own wine.
  7. Work on a product used by lots of people that care about what you do.
  8. As a company we contribute more than we take, most of our work is released as the open source GitLab CE.
  9. Focused on results, not on long hours, so that you can have a life and don't burn out.
  10. Open internal processes: know what you're getting in to and be assured we're thoughtful and effective.

See our culture page for more!

Responsibilities

  • As a Build engineer your main focus will be on omnibus-gitlab, the software that enables our users to install, upgrade, and use GitLab easily
  • Work on improving various aspects of the omnibus-gitlab package (size, speed, reliability)
  • Implement and bundle new services into the omnibus-gitlab package, for more details see our direction scope
  • Work with the rest of the GitLab development team in supporting newly created features and resolving bugs on the omnibus-gitlab project side
  • Work on making GitLab easier to install and configure for all users (through Chef cookbooks, Puppet modules, Ansible and Salt scripts)
  • Improve package build processes
  • Help community packaging projects (eg. native Debian, native Fedora and native Arch packages)

Workflow

  • In cooperation with the Packaging team, issues to work on will be sorted per release cycle.
  • Deciding priority of the issues can be found in the handbook under GitLab Workflow.

Requirements for Applicants

  • Ruby and Chef experience is required
  • Linux experience, comfortable between Debian and RHEL based systems
  • Familiarity with container ecosystems (for example: Docker, rkt, etc.)
  • Packaging experience is an advantage, not a requirement. However, you are expected to have basic knowledge of at least .deb and .rpm package archives.
  • Collaborative team spirit with good communication skills
  • You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Hiring Process

Applicants for this position can expect the hiring process to follow the order below. Please keep in mind that applicants can be declined from the position at any stage of the process. To learn more about someone who may be conducting the interview, find her/his job title on our team page.

  • Qualified applicants receive a short technical prompt from our Global Recruiters
  • The review process for this role can take a few days, check in with the Global recruiter at any point to learn the status of your application
  • Selected candidates will be invited to schedule a 45min screening call with our Global Recruiters
  • Next, candidates will be invited to schedule a first technical interview with our Build Lead
  • Successful candidates will be asked to provide 2-3 references
  • Candidates will be invited to schedule a third interview with our VP of Engineering
  • Finally, candidates will interview with our CEO
  • Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

Additional details about our process can be found on our hiring page.

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