Build Systems Engineer

About the role

DDN is seeking a Staff Build Systems Engineer to own the build, packaging, and developer build infrastructure for Infinia Software Defined Storage (SDS). The role ensures fast, reproducible builds across C/C++, Go, and web UI components and delivers reliable container and Linux package artifacts.

Key responsibilities

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

Required profile

• 5‑8 years of experience in software, build engineering, developer infrastructure, or a closely related field.
• Strong Linux compilation and linking knowledge with GCC/Clang and build systems such as SCons, Make, CMake, Meson, Ninja, or Bazel.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash for maintainable build tooling and diagnostics.
• Practical experience with Go build tooling and Node.js/npm workflows.
• Experience with Docker‑based build environments and multi‑stage images.
• Hands‑on experience with Debian and RPM packaging, dependency management, versioning, installation, upgrades, and publication.
• Experience integrating build systems with CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI and with artifact repositories.

Required skills

• C/C++ (GCC/Clang)
• SCons
• Make
• CMake
• Meson
• Ninja
• Bazel
• Python
• Bash
• Go
• Node.js/npm
• Docker
• Debian packaging
• RPM packaging
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• GitLab CI
• Nexus
• JFrog Artifactory
• Harbor
• Quay