Tooling Engineer

Cylake•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

Join a small team building the next generation of cybersecurity products from the ground up. Led by industry veterans with a proven track record of success - you will get to architect, build, and deliver hugely impactful products with this world class team. You will have the opportunity to grow your career and skills along with the company from the very start. You will be responsible for deploying, maintaining, and scaling the core engineering project management and tooling platforms, primarily centered around GitLab. This includes architecting comprehensive CI/CD pipelines, managing centralized artifact registries, and deploying critical SAST and code quality tooling. You will have the opportunity to establish the foundational development standards and automation frameworks from the ground up to support the rapid delivery of secure products.

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)
Experience building ML specialization pipelines (model distillation, pruning, or quantization)

Responsibilities

Deploying, maintaining, and scaling the core engineering project management and tooling platforms, primarily centered around GitLab.
Architecting comprehensive CI/CD pipelines.
Managing centralized artifact registries.
Deploying critical SAST and code quality tooling.
Establishing the foundational development standards and automation frameworks from the ground up to support the rapid delivery of secure products.