NOTE: This position has now been filled. The rest of this post is left for posterity only. If you’re interested in working at Red Hat in some other role, check out jobs.redhat.com and/or send me an email, and I’ll forward it to the right people.
We’re hiring for a position on the Fedora kernel team again.
If you are interested, email me a CV (davej at redhat) and we’ll see where things go. (we don’t have a posting on jobs.redhat.com yet)
Some of the tasks of the job include (but are not limited to):
* diagnosing incoming bugs from users
* backporting fixes from Linus’ latest tree to Fedora
* for bugs unfixed in Linus’ tree, work on fixing them, with the upstream maintainers.
* interacting with the -stable team to make sure those same fixes go there.
* helping keep Fedora on the cutting edge of kernel development by pushing new releases
Hiring distribution kernel maintainers is never easy. It is a job that requires knowledge of the various parts of the kernel. A generalist as opposed to a specialist. The bugs you’re staring at one day could be completely different the next.
With Fedora things are even harder due to the rapid rate of change upstream. By contrast, a RHEL kernel maintainer could spend time working on a bug for a month without the code underneath him changing.
It’s a demanding job, with an unrelenting torrent of new things that need fixing / working on. If this doesn’t dissuade you, you could be just what we’re looking for!
(oh, and the job doesn’t involve you having to move to Boston. Though if you wanted to I’m sure we could help make that happen).
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