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[Hiring] Build Engineer @Activestate
Mar 25, 2025 - Activestate is hiring a remote Build Engineer. 💸 Salary: $80,000 - $125,000 / year. 📍Location: South America.
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Role Description
We are looking for an experienced Build Engineer to join our team to work on our exciting platform.
As a Build Engineer on our team, you will be helping us build our products across multiple platforms. Our day-to-day work practices are centered around:
- GitHub
- Pull requests
- Code review
- CI for testing
- Agile development with Pivotal Tracker as our project management tool
We coordinate with each other and the rest of the company using:
- Slack for chat
- Highfive for video calls and screen sharing
- Pivotal Tracker
- Google Drive
We like to use open source software whenever possible and contribute back to the open source ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
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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.
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Build & Package Management
- Manage packaging updates with an emphasis on reliability and automation.
- Contribute to continuous improvements in the build pipeline and deployment process.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Engage in Strategic Discussions
- Enter discussions with well-researched insights and relevant information.
- Provide constructive feedback and engage in productive technical debates.
Qualifications
- 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.
Benefits
- 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.
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$80,000 - $125,000 / year
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Location
South America
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Job Type
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Mar 25, 2025
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