Packaging Engineer
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Job Location:
Los Angeles, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 Oblongs 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 wed like to hear from you.
Minimum 2 years working with similar systems in a production environment
Expert in packaging on Linux either Ubuntu .deb or RedHat .rpm spec files
Expert in a shell scripting language (bash or other)
Experience creating software installers for OS X (PackageMaker)
Experience managing sys v init scripts
Comfort with perl scripting or willingness to learn
Relational database management experience (especially Postgres) is a plus
Microsoft Visual Studio is a plus but not required
Benefits and Perks:
Competitive salary
Medical dental and vision insurance
401K plan
Gourmet lunches 3 days/week
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Food Industry
- Minitab
- Packaging
- CAD
- Mechanical Knowledge
- Plastics Blow Molding
- SolidWorks
- Mechanical Engineering
- Plastics Injection Molding
- Microsoft Project
- Manufacturing
