Cylake
Tooling Engineer
$150K–$250K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for GitLab or similar production management; other experience durations are not specified.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employment offer is conditioned on authorization to receive technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.
About the job
Build and operate engineering project-management and development tooling, primarily GitLab, to support secure product delivery.
What you'll do
- Deploy, maintain, and scale GitLab and related engineering platforms, including artifact registries and security and code-quality tools.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for builds, packaging, scanning, cross-compilation, and automated testing.
- Establish development standards and automation frameworks, including branch strategies, code reviews, and project scaffolding.
What they ask for
- 5+ years deploying, configuring, and managing GitLab or similar in production, including stress testing and backup/restore validation.
- Strong expertise designing and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines, including pipelines for container, Helm, and RPM builds.
- Experience integrating SAST and image vulnerability scanning into automated pipelines.
- Experience managing artifact registries and establishing development environment standards.
Nice to have
- Experience with build signing and secret management, such as Vault integration or Microsoft ELAM/PPL registration.
- Experience building ML specialization pipelines for model distillation, pruning, or quantization.
Pay
$150,000 – $250,000 per year (USD; base salary)
Tools
GitLab, Coverity, Semgrep, Helm, RPM, Rust, QEMU/KVM, Vault
AI focus
Build ML specialization pipelines for model distillation, pruning, or quantization (a plus).
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