Staff Build Systems Engineer

Why Join Us?

Core Responsibilities:

• Own the technical direction and operational reliability of the product build ecosystem in partnership with Development, QA, Release, and DevOps.
• Build Systems and Toolchains: Own C/C++, Go, and npm build workflows, including compilers, linkers, flags, dependencies, and configuration.
• Reproducible Environments: Standardize containerized and host build environments and maintain local, CI, and release branch consistency.
• Internal Build Automation: Maintain orchestration utilities for component builds, full-product builds, packaging, and deployment preparation.
• Failure Diagnosis: Resolve compiler, linker, dependency, packaging, platform, and developer-versus-CI issues.
• Artifacts and Packaging: Produce versioned container images and Debian/RPM packages; validate dependencies, installation, upgrades, and rollback.
• CI and Artifact Repositories: Integrate builds with CI platforms and repositories such as Nexus, JFrog Artifactory, Harbor, or Quay.
• Build Performance: Improve clean and incremental build times through caching, parallelism, dependency tracking, and measurement.

What You’ll Work On:

Required Skills:

• All of the following skills are mandatory:
• Experience: 8+ years in software, build engineering, developer infrastructure, or a closely related field.
• C/C++ Builds: Strong Linux compilation and linking knowledge with GCC/Clang and SCons, Make, CMake, Meson, Ninja, or Bazel.
• Automation: Strong Python and Bash skills for maintainable build tooling and diagnostics.
• Other Ecosystems: Practical experience with Go build tooling and Node.js/npm workflows.
• Containers: Experience with Docker-based build environments and multi-stage images.
• Linux Packaging: Hands-on Debian and RPM packaging, dependency management, versioning, installation, upgrades, and publication.
• CI/CD: Build-system integration with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent platforms and artifact repositories.
• Collaboration: Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, ownership, and cross-team technical leadership. Preferred Skills: The following skills are desirable but not mandatory: DDN Confidential
• Build Acceleration: ccache, sccache, distributed builds, remote execution, or comparable optimization technologies.
• Secure Builds: Hermetic builds, dependency pinning, provenance, SBOMs, signing, or software supply chain security.
• Migration Experience: Migration from a legacy build system to CMake, Meson/Ninja, Bazel, or a comparable platform.
• Systems Software: Storage, networking, operating system, compiler, or other performance-critical software.
• Developer Productivity: Build-health metrics, engineering standards, documentation, and self-service developer workflows.