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Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 / annual
Join Cylake, a cybersecurity startup led by industry veterans, as a Tooling Engineer responsible for deploying, maintaining, and scaling core engineering infrastructure and tooling platforms. You will architect and build comprehensive CI/CD pipelines, manage centralized artifact registries, and deploy critical security analysis and code quality tools—primarily centered around GitLab. This is a foundational role where you'll establish development standards, automation frameworks, and best practices from the ground up to support rapid, secure product delivery.
Key responsibilities include:
- Deploying, configuring, and managing GitLab in production environments with stress testing and backup/restore validation
- Designing and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines, including umbrella pipelines for container builds, Helm packaging, and RPM builds
- Deploying and integrating SAST tools (Coverity, Semgrep) and image vulnerability scanning into automated pipelines
- Setting up and managing artifact registries (container registries, Helm chart repositories, RPM repositories)
- Establishing development environment standards including branch strategies, conventional commits, code review standards, and pre-commit hooks
- Configuring CI/CD pipelines for cross-compilation (Windows, Linux, macOS) and project scaffolding (e.g., Rust workspaces)
- Integrating test automation such as QEMU/KVM boot testing within CI pipelines
You'll work with a small, high-impact team building next-generation cybersecurity products and have the opportunity to grow your career alongside the company from the start.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of experience deploying, configuring, and managing GitLab (or similar) in production environments, including stress testing and validating backup and restore procedures
- Strong expertise in designing and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines, including umbrella pipelines that trigger container builds, Helm packaging, and RPM builds
- Experience deploying and integrating SAST tools (such as Coverity or Semgrep) and image vulnerability scanning directly into automated pipelines
- Proficiency in setting up and managing artifact registries, including container registries, Helm chart repositories, and RPM repositories
- Experience establishing development environment standards, including branch strategies, conventional commits, code review standards, and pre-commit hooks
- Experience configuring CI/CD pipelines for cross-compilation (Windows, Linux, macOS) and project scaffolding, such as Rust workspaces
- Familiarity with integrating test automation, such as configuring QEMU/KVM boot testing within CI pipelines
- Experience with build signing and secret management (e.g., Vault integration, Microsoft ELAM/PPL registration) is a plus
- Experience building ML specialization pipelines (model distillation, pruning, or quantization) is a plus
