Distribution Engineer, Distribution: Build

at  GitLab

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AN OVERVIEW OF THIS ROLE

As a Distribution Engineer, your work within the Distribution 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.
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.

Some interesting links about the team and role:

• Our primary projects
• Our work with the community
• Our Demo videos

WHAT YOU’LL 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