Debian Developer

Salary: $84, per year

• Must be a member of the Debian community and an active Debian Maintainer (DM) or Debian Developer (DD)
• Skills in Python, Unix shell scripting, and text-processing tools
• Red Hat Linux experience
• Required experience:
  
  6–8

• Lead Debian packaging, maintenance, and upstream/downstream integration for software across our Linux-based infrastructure
• Manage the complete Debian packaging lifecycle, including authoring packaging sources, handling repository uploads, resolving complex dependencies, and meeting Debian Policy standards
• Build, maintain, and update official and custom Debian packages in accordance with the Debian Policy Manual
• Manage uploads to Debian archives and internal package mirrors, and configure and maintain tools such as apt, reprepro, debpool, pbuilder, and sbuild
• Triage bug reports, address CVEs, backport fixes, and coordinate changes with upstream projects and the Debian community
• Design and automate reproducible Debian package build pipelines using CI/CD tools
• Diagnose and resolve low-level packaging, shared-library, kernel, and toolchain dependency issues

• CI/CD
• Debian
• Support
• Linux
• Python
• Unix
• Security

We are seeking a Debian packaging specialist to support mission-critical software across our Linux-based infrastructure. The role focuses on maintaining reliable packages and integrating changes across upstream and downstream projects.

last updated 41 week of 2026