Responsibilities 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
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
Advantages We offer benefits to manage your health, wealth,



and well-being regardless of location
Flexibility in schedule to be there for life’s important moments
Equity compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan offered
Generous Paid Time Off
Requirements Have used continuous integration systems, including GitLab’s continuous integration feature, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Travis CI
Have worked with Debian- and Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based systems to build .deb and .rpm packages and package cloud native applications
Have communicated in written and spoken English in a remote, largely asynchronous work environment
Have written and maintained complex shell scripts in production environments
Have built container images and used container build tooling in production
Have used Linux build toolchains such as autotools, make, CMake, and Nix
Additional experience with Ruby, Go, Python, or Rust, or observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, would be helpful
Have worked with major cloud providers such as Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure
Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement

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📌 Senior Distribution Engineer (Gitlab: Build) (Ontario)
🏢 GitLab
📍 Ontario