Build Engineer

DescriptionActiveState enables DevOps, InfoSec, and Development teams to improve their security posture while simultaneously increasing productivity and innovation to deliver secure applications faster. We are the only solution in the market today that offers Intelligent Remediation, which identifies which vulnerabilities to prioritize, assesses the impact of updates causing breaking changes, prioritizes what to fix first, securely builds open source packages from source, and facilitates the build and deploy process to get fixes into production quickly and easily. All from the trusted partner that pioneered and continues to lead enterprise adoption and use of open source software. We are looking for a Junior - Intermediate Build Engineer to join our team to work on this exciting platform. This is a remote position open to residents of South America. As a Junior - Intermediate 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, and agile development with Pivotal Tracker as our project management tool. We’re always looking to improve our practices and we expect you to help us to do so. Our team is scattered around the US and Canada, so we coordinate with each other and the rest of the company using Slack for chat, Zoom for video calls and screen sharing, Pivotal Tracker, and Google Drive. We like to use open source software whenever possible, and we also like to contribute back to the open source ecosystem. We embrace open sourcing both libraries and tools developed in-house as long as those are not mission-critical code. Key Responsibilities

• 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.

• Build & Package Management

  • Manage packaging updates with an emphasis on reliability and automation.

  • Contribute to continuous improvements in the build pipeline and deployment process.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Engage in Strategic Discussions

  • Enter discussions with well-researched insights and relevant information.

  • Provide constructive feedback and engage in productive technical debates.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 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.

• 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.

BenefitsWhat’s in it for you?

• 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