Release Engineer (Remote/Europe)

Collabora Productivity Ltd. is a software company specialising in bringing the innovation created in Open Source projects such as LibreOffice to the market, along with services, long term support and software consultancy. We combine years of open source software leadership with an understanding of the challenges that businesses, non-profits, and governments face.
Collabora Productivity brings deep technical expertise around the Office space, from our preferred Open Document format to many other, including legacy, document formats such as OpenXML and Microsoft binary formats, using modern technologies.
We are looking for a passionate Release Engineer to join our team. As a Release Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring our core products are delivered across multiple platforms.
Key Responsibilities

Design and develop code that glues together various pieces of our build and test pipeline

Update build infrastructure for releasing new versions and variants

Maintain and monitor software build and maintain a Jenkins CI

Support a globally distributed team

Troubleshooting software build issues

Technical Skills

Deep Linux experience

LibreOffice releasing experience required

Python, shell experience

git experience - including re-basing and bisection

Superficial understanding of C++ enabling ability to identify and back-port changes between code branches resolving simple merge conflicts

LXC container experience a bonus

iOS / Android cross-compilation toolchains a bonus

Personal Skills

Highly self motivated, reliable with a demonstrable passion for Open Source and the office domain

Able to work from home office, managing own time effectively

Self learning skill to get sufficient knowledge of Collabora's services, business model, project delivery lifecycle and other related technical domains

Good interpersonal skills

Winsome presentation skills appreciated

Good English language skills (both verbal and written)

Ability to work and communicate in an online distributed environment

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