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# python-maint hiring – Copy of Miro's Facebook post

> From: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pyonieri/permalink/3588187837860034/

Hey, Pythonistas. I'm looking for a **software engineer** to join me in the **Python Maintenance** team at **Red Hat** – our **remote**-friendly **Brno**-based team with members throughout the Czech Republic (including **Prague** and ``!!!``) as well as abroad (France, partially Greece, US planned).

Our team maintains Linux packages with Python (the interpreter) for **Fedora** Linux and RHEL (**Red Hat Enterprise Linux**). We also take care of and contribute to many Python-development-related tools –  e.g. pip, pytest, setuptools, tox, Sphinx, or pipenv and poetry, as well as many Python libraries they depend on.

In Fedora, we are part of the Python SIG – https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Python – an informal group of community contributors making the Python developer experience on Fedora one of the best ones out there. In the open, truly **open-source**, **community-driven** software (although financed by Red Hat). We release early, we release often. Fedora is often the first distributor to **integrate** new Python versions and make sure everything works flawlessly for the others soon. For example, we have been recently investigating, triaging, and fixing Python 3.9 related problems in dozens of libraries, many of which you use daily, before it was released this week.

OTOH in RHEL, we maintain an almost-unchanging but yet security-fixed Python environment for the businesses.

We work **in the communities**, be it **Python** itself, the **Fedora** Project, **EPEL**, **CentOS**, or hundreds of projects we contribute to.

Our team invents how to do things better, writes PEPs (Python Enhancements Proposals), participates in Python planning.

When maintaining such projects, we often send PRs or are part of the core contributors. Yet we have open-source software of our own: automation, containers, integration tools, validators, metadata extractors, and more. Partially at http://github.com/fedora-python/

Our team is heavily involved with the local Czech Python community as well (at least those of us located here). You know us from Pyvo in Prague/Brno/Ostrava, PyLadies courses in the same locations, PyCon CZ, and community sprints. Petr Viktorin, Lumír Balhar, Tomáš Orsava and yours truly, Miro Hrončok.

We need you to know (or learn) how to communicate with volunteer-driven communities (in English), be able to debug and solve a problem that spans across several projects (not necessarily by adding code), understand the fundamentals of Linux userspace, know at least the basics of Python, Shell and git. We would consider both very junior and more experienced candidates. This **may** be an **entry-level** job as well (not necessarily).

Interested? Let me know, the position is not official yet (and it might never even need to be).

Disclaimer: If we hire you I'll get a bonus and buy a lawn tractor. If you think Petr, Lumír or Tomáš deserve this bonus more, contact them directly.

(Due to legal BS, Red Hat cannot employ you as a remote if you want to work from Slovakia. You would need to relocate to the Czech Republic, or any other country with Red Hat entity.)

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BTW You can get some basic idea of our day to day work via https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JNOC3PX4GVFRYYTKAYSLIWVP4ZQ2CAG4/ or https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RROBNWYP25AIZONTDAITMBQMYMVZAFNB/ (see the attached HTMLs for a better formatted list)