Build Engineer

• Own & Drive Your Work
  • Complete assigned tasks independently, ensuring high-quality, well-documented, and tested solutions.
  • Identify unclear or incomplete work, ensuring that it has an appropriate owner and is actionable.
    
    
• Build & Package Management
  • Manage packaging updates with an emphasis on reliability and automation.
  • Contribute to continuous improvements in the build pipeline and deployment process.
    
    
• Customer-Focus
  • Ask probing questions about strategy and work plans, considering customer outcomes in technical decisions.
  • Identify potential risks and communicate them effectively, ensuring work aligns with business objectives.
    
    
• Maintenance & Growth
  • Maintain and improve package stability through proactive monitoring and issue resolution.
  • Define and execute experiments to evaluate new ideas and enhancements for the build system.
    
    
•  Enable & Support Others
  • Proactively seek opportunities to assist teammates, volunteering to help where needed.
  • Make time to collaborate and provide meaningful feedback in code reviews, documentation, and discussions.
  • Communicate effectively with peers, ensuring alignment and knowledge sharing across teams.
    
    
• Engage in Strategic Discussions
  •  Enter discussions with well-researched insights and relevant information.
  • Provide constructive feedback and engage in productive technical debates.

• Experience with software build systems, CI/CD pipelines, or automated deployment tools.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language, with an openness to working across multiple technologies.
•  Ability to independently manage tasks and identify gaps in work, ensuring alignment with broader goals.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on risk assessment and long-term platform reliability.
• Clear and effective communication—able to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A proactive and collaborative approach, volunteering to help teammates and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing.
• A curiosity-driven mindset, capable of defining and executing experiments to improve processes.

Assets

• Experience working on a build system.
• Agile processes, including breaking large projects up into smaller stories, estimation, working in branches (GitHub Flow), code review, and CI.
• C or C++ code and debugging compiler issues across platforms.
• Experience writing Perl code.
• Perl, Python, Tcl, or Ruby, especially an understanding of their respective language communities and their toolchains.
• Big iron operating systems including Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.
• Build tools such as make, autotools, bazel, etc.

• Working for a stable and growing company in an emerging space, that offers the environment and personal growth potential of a start-up.
• The chance to work with a group of smart, passionate people focused on building a more secure open-source landscape.
• Competitive salary and bonus
• Comprehensive benefits package and health & wellness credit program.
• Unlimited PTO