As a Build engineer your main focus will be on omnibus-gitlab, the software that enables our users to install, upgrade, and use GitLab easily
Work on improving various aspects of the omnibus-gitlab package (size, speed, reliability)
Implement and bundle new services into the omnibus-gitlab package, for more details see our direction scope
Work with the rest of the GitLab development team in supporting newly created features and resolving bugs on the omnibus-gitlab project side
Work on making GitLab easier to install and configure for all users (through Chef cookbooks, Puppet modules, Ansible and Salt scripts)
Improve package build processes
Help community packaging projects (eg. native Debian, native Fedora and native Arch packages)
Workflow
In cooperation with the Packaging team, issues to work on will be sorted per release cycle.
Deciding priority of the issues can be found in the handbook under GitLab Workflow.

