Open Source Software Release Engineer

Do manual and repetitive build, test and deploy tasks make you cringe? Do you get the satisfaction of automating all the things and supporting developers around the globe? Do you like solving a failed build mystery and are not afraid to find out that you misspelled a variable? Do you like to work in an open and transparent environment? If so, our Open Source Software Release Engineer is likely the job for you!

The Eclipse Foundation is one of the world’s largest open source software foundations. Its member base and project count is growing significantly. Some of the largest projects include the various Eclipse IDEs, Jakarta EE (successor of Java EE), Adoptium (previously AdoptOpenJDK). As such, the Eclipse Foundation is looking for an individual to join our release engineering team in order to help us manage the infrastructure and the CI/CD tools, and to support the developer community of these open source projects.

Working closely with the members of our IT team, you’ll play a key role in fulfilling the mandate of the Foundation and help drive the success of our large community of open source developers.

Location

This is a remote position, and the selected candidate will be expected to work from their home office. All qualified candidates will be considered, with preference for candidates based in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, other EU countries, or Canada.

Salary Range

$100-130k CAD / €55k–€80k in Europe, depending on the country and experience.

Responsibilities

• You will support and operate (as part of the team) two large scale continuous integration systems: a farm of 200+ Jenkins instances and a growing GitLab CI set-up.
• You will work directly with community members through public channels to provide assistance and tools, helping them with their CI/CD requirements.
• You will be always advocating for a DevOps mindset with the required sense of efficiency, security and sustainability.
• You will be participating in our efforts around Observability.
• As part of the IT team, you will proactively be involved in integrating new technologies, processes and tools, all with a mindset of efficiency and maintainability.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of CI/CD best practices and experience with operating and managing CI services (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub actions, ...)
• Good understanding of one or multiple build systems (Maven, Gradle, CMake, ...)
• Good knowledge of Linux system administration and of a scripting language (ideally Bash).
• Familiarity working in a DevOps culture, along with building and integrating tooling with Configuration as Code and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles (Ansible, Terraform, etc).
• Experience with distributed version control systems like Git as well as with collaborative forges like GitHub or GiLab.