Packaging Engineer

oblong

Los Angeles (CA)

On-site

USD 80,000 - 100,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A software solutions company is looking for a seasoned Software Packaging Engineer to join its Core Platform Team in Los Angeles. This role involves building installation media for various platforms, including RedHat and Ubuntu, to streamline the deployment of the company's software development kit. The ideal candidate has strong Linux packaging skills, experience in creating installers, and the ability to define and automate internal procedures. Flexibility and adaptability in a fast-changing environment are key attributes for this position.

Qualifications

2+ years working with similar systems in a production environment.
Expert in packaging on Linux platforms.
Experience in creating software installers and managing scripts.

Responsibilities

Build installation media for software on various platforms.
Define automatable internal procedures with the VP of Software Engineering.
Translate procedures into a straightforward software infrastructure.

Skills

Linux packaging expertise (Ubuntu .deb or RedHat .rpm)

Shell scripting (bash or other)

Software installation creation for OS X

Management of sys v init scripts

Willingness to learn perl scripting

Relational database management experience (Postgres)

Microsoft Visual Studio

Job description

What You Would Do

As a seasoned software packaging engineer, you would help us disseminate our software development kit to the wider world. As a member of Oblong’s Core Platform Team, you would be responsible for building installation media for our software on a variety of platforms. We package and distribute our g-speak SDK, as well as applications that we build on top of the SDK. Currently our supported platforms are RedHat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu LTS, MacOS, and Windows. Our aim is to make installation as user-friendly as possible across these platforms. As a package manager, your clients would include in-house developers, our Fortune-500 clients, and soon, the general public.

As a packaging engineer, you will work with the VP of Software Engineering to define automatable internal procedures, and translate those procedures into a software infrastructure that makes packaging new software straightforward. This position requires a high comfort level with packaging on at least one of the platforms we use.

What We Look For

Having experience with the specific tools we use is a plus, but not a requirement. We place a higher value on flexibility and adaptability, because the state of the art is ever changing. If you are someone who really enjoys defining procedures, wants to help us to automate them, and has the desired skills listed below, we’d like to hear from you.