Senior Distribution Engineer, Gitlab: Build
Join GitLab as a Senior Distribution Engineer to manage build pipelines and collaborate on packaging for Linux distributions.
Posted by employer 4 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 4 days ago
Last verified on the company career page 42 minutes ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Build and maintain packages for supported Linux distributions
- Develop and maintain official GitLab container images
- Enable development teams to integrate their components into GitLab packages
- Collaborate with security teams to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities
- Manage cloud marketplace listings and integrations
Must have
- Have used Linux build toolchains such as autotools, make, CMake, and Nix
- Have built container images and used container build tooling in production
- Have worked with Debian- and Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based systems
- Have used continuous integration systems
- Have written and maintained complex shell scripts
- Have communicated in written and spoken English in a remote environment
Nice to have
- Additional experience with Ruby, Go, Python, or Rust
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
AI in the day-to-day
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Benefits
Joblaze summary
In the role of Senior Distribution Engineer at GitLab, the individual will oversee the management of build pipelines, ensuring that components are up-to-date and compliant while facilitating the integration of new features. Key skills include proficiency with Linux build toolchains, container image creation, and experience with CI systems, particularly in a cloud environment. This position is suited for candidates with a strong technical background, particularly those familiar with Debian and Red Hat systems, and who can thrive in a remote, asynchronous work culture.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 4 days ago — first seen on Joblaze September 16, 2026. Last confirmed on GitLab's careers page September 20, 2026.
Quick facts
- Is the Senior Distribution Engineer, Gitlab: Build role remote?
- Yes — GitLab lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Debian, Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Go, Grafana.
- What seniority level is this role?
- GitLab targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Distribution Engineer, Gitlab: Build role at GitLab.
From the original posting
GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster.
An overview of this role
As a Senior Distribution Engineer on the GitLab Build team, you'll manage build pipelines, evaluate support needs for new services, platforms, and architectures, and maintain existing ones. You'll keep the components that make up GitLab up to date and license-compliant, and make them available for users' platforms and architectures.
You'll work with development teams as they support new features and contribute to projects that include community packaging efforts.
What you’ll do
- 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.
What you’ll bring
- Have used Linux build toolchains such as autotools, make, CMake, and Nix.
- Have built container images and used container build tooling in production.
- Have worked with Debian- and Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based systems to build
.deband.rpmpackages and package cloud native applications. - Have used continuous integration systems, including GitLab's continuous integration feature, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Travis CI.
- Have written and maintained complex shell scripts in production environments.
- Have communicated in written and spoken English in a remote, largely asynchronous work environment.
- Have worked with major cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure.
- Additional experience with Ruby, Go, Python, or Rust, or observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, would be helpful.
About the team
We produce system packages, container images, related components such as marketplace listings, and the tooling that creates and maintains them. We bridge development teams and end users by providing tooling and expertise that enable efficient component building and deliver simple, secure, dependable installation experiences. We also review a large number of merge requests from outside our team, including dependency and security updates for bundled components such as PostgreSQL, Consul, and Patroni.
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