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[Full-time] Communications Lead at Sovereign Tech Agency

2026-07-09 11:19:01

Location: Berlin, Germany
URL: https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/communications-lead

Description:

We are looking for an experienced, strategic thinker to lead and develop our communications work.

Who we are

The Sovereign Tech Agency is an organization dedicated to the digital sovereignty of the economy and society. Our mission is to strengthen the foundations of our digital autonomy and secure open digital technologies as the critical infrastructure of the 21st century.

Open digital infrastructure is the backbone of the digital world. It is essential for the flow of information, for government, for business, and for innovation, much like roads and bridges in the physical world. The most effective strategy for building this infrastructure is open source software: it is the bedrock on which our digital society is built – powerful, collaborative, and democratic.

With a commission from the German Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation, we invest in critical software components, develop programs, and create structures that sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem, including the people behind the code.

Our work is unique: we are leading the way on how governments engage with open digital infrastructure and laying the groundwork for how modern societies ensure resilience, technological diversity, and public digital services.

Together, we are building Europe’s digital future – open, secure, and sovereign.

Who we are looking for

We are looking for a communications lead to contribute to the future growth of the Sovereign Tech Agency.

The Sovereign Tech Agency operates at the intersection of open source technology, digital infrastructure, and policy — in Germany, Europe, and beyond. Our work touches on fundamental questions: who controls the digital infrastructure underpinning AI, cyber resilience, and economic competitiveness? How do we ensure that these foundational technologies remain open, secure, and sustainable?

This position is for someone who understands that communications is not a support function but a strategic lever for shaping technology, innovation, and digital policy. In this role, you will shape how the Sovereign Tech Agency is understood and perceived and ensure our issues are visible, politically relevant, and land effectively with the right audiences. In day-to-day operations, you will turn our content, programs, and strategic initiatives into clear and compelling communications that resonate with policymakers, media, industry, and open source communities. You will help shape key debates on digital infrastructure, open source, technological sovereignty, and public sector digitalization in Germany and throughout Europe.

You are the primary contact for all external communications and will partner closely with the leadership team to shape how the organization is understood and perceived. The role offers significant room to shape things in a growing public interest organization.

Your Tasks

Strategic Positioning & Narrative

You will define the organization’s overall communications direction and ensure our messaging is consistent and resonant across all audiences and contexts.

Developing and sharpening an overarching narrative, grounded in our mission, strategy, and portfolio
Turning complex issues into clear, politically effective messaging
Developing and refining our positioning with political, business, and other societal stakeholders
Ensuring consistent communications across all channels
Preparing leadership for public appearances, talks, and panels — developing the content, messaging, and strategic framing behind briefings, talking points, and presentations

Communications Delivery & Development

You will take responsibility for the day-to-day operations and the longer-term development of our communications work.

Planning and executing communications around announcements, calls, milestones, and the conclusion of cycles and cohorts: for example, UN Open Source Week, the Digital Commons EDIC, as well as the Sovereign Tech Fund, the Sovereign Tech Fellowship, Sovereign Tech Resilience, and Sovereign Tech Standards
Running the Sovereign Tech Agency’s owned channels: website, newsletter, blog, social media, press, and publications
Continuing to develop our website as the central hub for our programs, content, publications, and public presence
Prioritizing and coordinating ongoing communications activities across all channels and workstreams
Building and maintaining a productive communications pipeline: clear formats, repeatable processes, a consistent editorial line
Ensuring key developments and issues are communicated clearly and accessibly within the organization
Leading and developing the communications team

Proactive Communications & Outreach

You will ensure the organization’s key issues get seen — at the right moment, in the right form, by the right people.

Identifying communications opportunities and issues with political or wider relevance for the Sovereign Tech Agency and its leadership
Proactively placing stories and materials with appropriate media outlets
Building and maintaining relationships with journalists, editors, and key voices and networks
Developing communications outputs that generate consistent visibility and resonance

Your Qualities

Professional Qualifications

A university degree (e.g. in communications, marketing, business with a focus on marketing or communications) or equivalent professional experience in a senior role in strategic communications, public affairs, journalism, or a comparable field
Experience in political, public, or regulated environments (e.g. ministries, trade associations, think tanks, foundations, or tech and digital policy)
Experience communicating technical topics, ideally in a technology-driven or digital policy environment
A foundational understanding of open source ecosystems and issues at the intersection of technology, business, and policy — or a demonstrated ability to build that understanding quickly
Adept at conveying complex technical content clearly, precisely, and compellingly to technical and non-technical audiences alike
Experience preparing leadership for public appearances and engagements
Excellent German and English language skills, with demonstrated experience producing publication-ready copy in both languages
Our working language is English — you should be able to express yourself with confidence and precision, including in fast-paced working situations

Personal Qualities

A highly developed strategic mindset and sharp instinct for political and communications dynamics
The ability to prioritize issues and orient work toward impact
A hands-on mentality and willingness to work both conceptually and operationally
Confidence and composure when dealing with media, stakeholders, and internal partners
Discretion and professionalism when handling sensitive topics
A collaborative spirit: you value open exchange, collegial working relationships, and mutual feedback
You’re a team player and enjoy collaborating with coworkers, active and open communication, and both giving and receiving feedback.
You’re organized, self-directed, pragmatic, and proactive, and work effectively with modern collaboration tools

For us, your motivation, attitude, and vision are as important as your resume. Even if you don’t fit all requirements, we welcome your application.

What we offer

Based on experience and qualifications, the annual compensation for this role (at 40 hours per week) is 84,000 to 91,000 Euro aligned with the TVöD-Bund wage agreement for the public sector.
Flexible and remote-friendly work arrangements for all family and life situations, from our office in Berlin-Mitte or in a hybrid model * We have four in-person team meetings in or around Berlin per year; almost all meetings are scheduled during GMT +1 working hours. * Employment under German law; work and residence must be in Germany
30 days of vacation (based on a 5-day work week)
Support for your professional and personal development, including the opportunity to attend international conferences
Initial two-year term with the goal of converting subsequently to an open-ended contract
In our small, agile team, your perspective matters: we explicitly welcome you to contribute ideas and suggestions about how we can develop as an organization and to actively participate in shaping our future.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are a diverse team and welcome applications from BPoC (Black and People of Color), individuals with disabilities, people with migration backgrounds, and individuals from other groups underrepresented in technology development.

If you belong to these groups, please feel free to mention it in your application. However, we encourage you to refrain from including a photo of yourself or any information about your age, gender, marital status, or similar details in your documents.

How to apply and the next steps

Please submit your application in English or German using this form.

Apply: https://www.sovereign.tech/jobs/communications-lead

We will confirm receipt of your documents by email. We will set up an introductory meeting as soon as possible, depending on your availability, either in person in Berlin or via video call. We will accept applications for this position through 15 July 2026.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at jobs@sovereign.tech.

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[Full-time] KDE Plasma developer at Techpaladin LLC.

2026-06-24 10:35:07

Location: Worldwide
URL: https://techpaladinsoftware.com/joinus.html

Description:

This is a fully remote contract position open to anyone in the world not living in a country sanctioned by the U.S. government (for legal reasons; decision is out of our hands). The start date is flexible and can be whenever you’re ready.

In this role, you would be working on topics related to KDE Plasma that Techpaladin’s clients want improved, such as:

General Plasma polish and QA
Fixing, improving, and implementing automatic tests
Implementing new features
Fixing specific bugs
Working on private hardware-specific software that supports Plasma
Backporting fixes
Release management
Similar development-related tasks. But generally KDE-related!

The Pay

Pay will depend on country and experience:

USA: 6,000-8,000 USD/mo
Europe: 5,000-7,000 EUR/mo
UK: 4,000-6,000 GBP/mo
Rest of the world: similar range, adjusted for local currency

You

There is no list of explicit qualifications, minimum years of experience, or formal education requirements. But developing KDE software with Techpaladin might be a good fit the more this sounds like you:

You’re a KDE contributor, or have been. Your profile page on https://invent.kde.org is more blue or purple than it is white, or at least it has been in the past.
You’ve used and developed KDE Plasma, or related technologies (Qt, KDE apps and frameworks, C++, QML, CMake, XDG portals, Wayland protocols).
You’ve got any experience with performance profiling & optimization, graphics, networking & file sharing, and/or enterprise uses of FOSS.
You’re a good communicator. Your “online voice” is gentle, not harsh. You’ve generally got a positive attitude. You keep on top of your email. You can handle working remotely in written and spoken English with a geographically distributed team split across 8 time zones.
You’re a team player. You’re willing to work on what the clients want done. You review other people’s merge requests and triage bug reports. You accept decisions made in public with your input that nonetheless didn’t go your way.

Get in touch

Does this sound a bit like you? We’d love to hear from you at jobs@techpaladinsoftware.com (please don’t send anything clearly written by AI; it will be discarded immediately) with your resumé, KDE Invent profile, links to KDE-related projects you’re proud of, or anything else that seems relevant.

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[Full-time] Interim Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects (all genders) at Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

2026-06-17 11:29:49

Location: Berlin, Germany
URL: https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/65367316/Interim-Engineering-Manager-Wikidata-for-Wikimedia-Projects-all-genders-/

Description:

At Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. we help create, collect and distribute free knowledge.
In 2004, volunteer Wikipedia activists founded the non-profit association Wikimedia Deutschland in Berlin, which now consists of over 110,000 members and 190 full-time staff.

Free knowledge leads to a fairer world. Wikipedia is the most important online knowledge collection of our time. The German Wikipedia alone records almost 1 billion page views per month for a total of 3 million articles. We – Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. – support the volunteers of Wikipedia and its sister projects, develop free software, such as Wikidata, and advocate for free access to knowledge, the opening of education and research, and more common good orientation in data policy.

For our Software Engineering Team, based in Berlin, we are looking for an Interim Engineering Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects (all genders), full-time, ideally starting 01.09.2026 or sooner for a 12-months contract.

This position is designed as a hybrid working model with weekly presence in our Berlin office.

About the position & the team:
In this role, you will be responsible for the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects engineering development and team leadership. Wikidata is a free, collaboratively created knowledge graph. In 2012, we started the project at Wikimedia Deutschland; in 2022 we celebrated its 10th birthday. Amongst others, Wikidata stores important specified Wikimedia data for Wikipedia in a central location and helps to distribute the maintenance workload across language and project boundaries.

From its beginning, Wikidata was intended to support other Wikimedia projects and, today, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects are inextricably linked. It is the overarching goal of the Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects team that we strengthen this mutually beneficial relationship and ensure its long-term sustainability

What you’ll be doing:

You are responsible for leading and managing a team of engineers working to improve the Wikidata for Wikimedia Project’s features and products
You represent the team within the organization, towards the Wikimedia Foundation and publicly.
You support the development of our Wikidata & Wikimedia Projects strategy by mentoring and leading the engineering team to help build features that enable our communities to achieve their visions and make our services stable and efficient for the future.
You collaborate with engineers and managers from cross-functional teams, to develop team goals and track progress to build features, products, and services used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
You will help team members to foster a culture of learning and personal growth and ensure that the team’s work maintains high quality.
You are not only a tech leader, you also understand your team’s psychological needs and create a safe environment for them.
You work with the team to identify and prioritize technical debt and drive efforts to address it and support them to deliver on time and align development with the overall goals of the organization.
You support your team by completing performance reviews, budgeting, and career development.
You are sensemaking the organisation’s strategy to the team to ensure alignment with the overarching goals and providing the right guidance.

What makes you right for this role:

You have prior, proven experience in a leadership role (team lead or engineering manager) of ~5 engineers and in a setting of cross-functional departments, diverse backgrounds and complex products.
You are an excellent communicator and you work best in an environment driven by collaboration, participation and a strong community.
You have previously been working with large-scale web applications, databases and distributed systems as well as with technologies like MySql, MariaDB, PHP, Docker.
You can give the team guidance on how to optimize data access, table structures or even sharding of databases.
You can communicate in English on a professional level, and you have good knowledge of the German language or the willingness to learn it.
Ideally, you have worked with open-source software development and you possess basic knowledge of the Wikimedia projects and communities.
If you have used Wikidata (or Wikibase) yourself, if you know Blazegraph or SPARQL, that is considered a plus.

Interested?
Please send us your application documents (Resume & Motivational Letter) via our job portal. We kindly ask you to refrain from application photos and information on date of birth, marital status and parents.
Wikimedia Germany is committed to equal opportunities and does not discriminate on the basis of, for example, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or belief, political or other convictions, gender, age, disability, or sexual identity or orientation. We would like to address you in the way which feels most comfortable for you so please share your preferred name and pronouns if you wish.

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[Full-time] System Administrator at The Document Foundation

2026-06-08 20:50:58

Location: Worldwide
URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-paid-system-administrator

Description:

Love LibreOffice? Got experience with infrastructure and system administration? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new people with fresh ideas into our project.

To assist the LibreOffice community with its work, we are looking for a full-time (remote) Infrastructure and System Administrator, to start as soon as possible.

All jobs at The Document Foundation are remote jobs, where you can work from your home office or a co-working space. The work time during the day is flexible, apart from a few fixed meetings. The role is offered as full-time (ideally 40 hours per week). While we prefer full-time for the role, part-time applications, or proposals to grow the hours over time, will be considered. Candidates that are resident in Germany will be employed directly by TDF. Otherwise, external payroll services will be used if available in the candidate’s country of residence.

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[Full-time] Interim Technical Product Manager, Fundraising Technology (all genders) at Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.

2026-06-01 14:39:46

Location: Berlin, Germany
URL: https://wikimedia-deutschland.career.softgarden.de/jobs/65056193/Interim-Technical-Product-Manager,-Fundraising-Technology-all-genders-/

Description:

Free knowledge leads to a fairer world. Wikipedia is the most important online knowledge collection of our time. The German Wikipedia alone records almost 1 billion page views per month for a total of 3 million articles. We – Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. – support the volunteers of Wikipedia and its sister projects, develop free software, such as Wikidata and Wikibase, and advocate for free access to knowledge, the opening of education and research, and more common good orientation in data policy.

For our Software Engineering Team, based in Berlin, we are looking for an Interim Technical Product Manager, Fundraising Technology (all genders), full- or part-time (24- 40 hours / week), ideally starting 01.08.2026 for a limited contract until 31.01.2027.

This position is designed as a hybrid working model with quarterly presence in our Berlin office.

The Fundraising Technology (FUNtech) team develops and improves the software of Wikimedia Deutschland’s fundraising operations. This includes developing and maintaining the existing Fundraising app and infrastructure, as well as supporting the annual fundraising campaign.
Our Fundraising efforts fuel our continued work for the Wikipedia community, our large-scale software projects such as Wikidata and Wikibase, and our efforts to help secure access to free knowledge around the globe, to name but a few examples.

You will be the Technical Product Manager (all genders) for this team, collaborating closely with a team of engineers and across key stakeholders. You will also be a part of the Product Management team, and report to the Head of Product Operations.

What you’ll be doing:

You are responsible for roadmap ownership, delivery coordination, and cross-functional collaboration based on requirements from multiple stakeholder teams.
You will be the interface between our Fundraising Technology team, the Donations and Members Data team and our non-technical Campaigns and Fundraising team and can translate their needs into work packages and clear action items for the engineering team.
You will drive projects forward by using agile project management methodologies.
You will occasionally be coordinating with external service providers.

What makes you right for this role:

Strong experience as a Technical Product Manager in software-driven environments.
Hands-on experience in using Agile / Kanban methodologies.
Well-established interpersonal and external communication and collaboration skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience with fundraising, CRM, or e-marketing technology, including payment systems, donor/customer databases, analytics, and legacy software maintenance, ideally in mission-driven or non-profit organisational contexts.
Ability to operate autonomously in an interim setup, taking rapid ownership of existing products and processes, making pragmatic decisions, and integrating quickly into established teams.
Experience working in distributed hybrid/remote environments.
Proficient written and verbal communication skills in English and German.

Interested?
Please send us your application documents (Resume & ideally a Motivational Letter) via our job portal until 21st June 2026. We kindly ask you to refrain from application photos and information on date of birth, marital status and parents.
Wikimedia Germany is committed to equal opportunities and does not discriminate on the basis of, for example, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or belief, political or other convictions, gender, age, disability, or sexual identity or orientation. We would like to address you in the way which feels most comfortable for you so please share your preferred name and pronouns if you wish.

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[Full-time] Android developer for the decentralized web at eQualitie

2026-06-01 10:47:38

Location: Worldwide
URL: https://equalitie.org/android-developer-for-the-decentralized-web-2/

Description:

Contract Duration: 6 months, with possibility of extension
Job Location: Remote
Job Type: Contract
Salary Range: 6,000 – 7,000 USD/monthly depending on experience

About eQualitie

eQualitie is a technology company creating tools, offering services and leading advocacy in support of a more equal and equitable internet. Operating on not-for-profit principles and guided by our common values, we solve complex technical problems for improving digital defences, supporting resilience and enabling freedom of expression and association online. Over fifty people distributed around the world create and lead our various initiatives, often focused on some of the most complex digital and political issues of our time. eQualitie’s solutions are open source, and everyday, they empower millions of people online.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Android engineer to contribute to two software products from the decentralized networking team: Ceno Browser and the eQsat Extractor applications. Ceno is a tool designed for content accessibility in some of the most repressive digital regimes, with a particular focus on areas under a network shutdown. It has been operationally deployed since 2020. The Android version is built from Mozilla’s Android Components and utilizes the Ouinet library to share web content peer-to-peer over an existing Distributed Hash Table (e.g. BitTorrent). eQsat is a satellite datacasting solution built to support the injection of new web content into isolated networks. Its client-side application extracts and decodes content received from the satellite stream, thereafter making it available on the local network to users of the Ceno Browser. It’s a modern day sneakernet serving thousands of users everyday!

This is a relatively fast-paced environment with a strong sense of individual contribution and close-knit project teams. We expect individuals to grow into their roles but also to make it their own.

Your primary duties will include

Implementing UI/UX improvements in the Ceno for Android application
Driving development of new features for the eQsat Extractor application
Maintaining privacy-preserving analytics suite to improve insight into our distributed network
Unit-testing code for robustness, usability, and general reliability
Work on bug fixing and improving application performance
Maintaining the highest level of professional security and code development practices
Listening critically and giving viable feedback to team members, managers, and outside groups
Documenting work toward long-term maintenance and reproducibility
Being on time with product timelines and deliverables

You should

Have 3+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant experience building production Android applications, (experience with mobile web browser development is a strong plus)
Have strong experience in Kotlin programming
Have experience developing JavaScript web applications
Have experience in a test-driven approach to software development & version control with git
Be reachable for at least 2 hours on working days between 9am – 5pm EST

Nice to have

Familiarity with async JavaScript/Node.js and front-end web development
Experience in network programming (HTTP TCP/IP, UDP) and decentralized/distributed networking technologies
Enjoy delving into other people’s code, debugging and improving it
Excellent development credentials and years of experience working with a variety of technologies
A strong desire to work on free and open-source software

How to apply

Please send all documents to hireme|at|equalitie|dot|org including your resume and a cover letter that also explains how your experience and motivation match our requirements. Include your Github username or another platform where we can see your previous projects. Also include links to past mobile app projects you’ve worked on. Note that selected candidates will be asked to perform a (non-project related) coding challenge.

eQualitie welcomes applicants from all backgrounds. We are a remote-first company and offer flexible working arrangements. We are keen to hear from people who consider themselves under-represented in the software, technology or FLOSS communities – even if they feel they meet only some of our needs.

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[Part-time] RFP -- Security Researcher at Freedom of the Press Foundation

2026-05-15 13:31:03

Location: Worldwide
URL: https://freedomofthepress.na.teamtailor.com/jobs/611576-rfp-security-researcher

Description:

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) seeks a fully remote contract security researcher to support the SecureDrop team over a six-month engagement (max. 30 hours/week), with possibility for renewal.

Scope of work

In coordination with FPF’s other engineers and researchers, the contractor will:

Conduct application security reviews across SecureDrop components.
Assist in performing threat modeling for new features and architectural changes.
Review pull requests and design documents with a focus on the security properties of new features and the security implications of architectural changes.
Assist in preparing materials for and reviewing findings from third-party security audits.
Advise on hardening strategies for SecureDrop’s deployment environments.
Review and integrate security automation tooling, such as LLMs, static code analyzers, and other tools that can mitigate or discover security vulnerabilities.

Desired qualifications

At least three-plus years experience designing or attacking secure systems (threat modeling, penetration testing, security assessments, protocol design, etc.).
Production coding experience using at least two of the following: Python, Typescript, or Rust.
Strong working knowledge of Linux systems security (kernel hardening, AppArmor, SELinux, etc.).
Experience identifying and reasoning about browser/web vulnerabilities (XSS) and Electron-specific issues (file handling, IPC, etc.).
Comfort working with open source projects in a collaborative, distributed team environment.

Preferred skills

One-plus year of professional experience with Qubes OS, Tails, or other high-security desktop environments.
One-plus year of professional incident response experience.
Using or developing security monitoring tools (e.g., intrusion detection systems, file integrity monitoring).
Familiarity with Tor, onion services, OpenPGP, and other privacy-enhancing technologies.

Terms of contract

This is a part-time, hourly contract — the contractor will be paid at a rate of USD $80 per hour, up to 30 hours per week, invoiced on a monthly basis. The contractor will be solely responsible for paying any and all taxes incurred as a result of their compensation.

The contract will commence on a mutually agreeable date no later than Aug. 1 for an initial duration of six months, with the possibility of renewal.

Proposal requirements

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, please submit the following:

A brief statement of interest (one-page maximum), which includes your availability (hours per week in U.S. Eastern time and any known constraints). Please do so by including that text in the space labeled “Cover Letter.”
- Please be sure to include relevant experience or examples of prior work (links to GitHub, write-ups, audits, etc.).
A CV/résumé.

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[Full-time] Cryptography Engineer (SecureDrop) at Freedom of the Press Foundation

2026-05-13 13:40:38

Location: United States
URL: https://freedomofthepress.na.teamtailor.com/jobs/610227-cryptography-engineer

Description:

Position Description

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting, defending, and empowering public-interest journalism, is hiring a cryptography engineer to join its SecureDrop development team. Reporting to the engineering manager for SecureDrop, this position is a unique opportunity to be part of a small, primarily remote, and internationally distributed team that is making it possible for newsrooms to manage their most sensitive submissions, from the next big story about abuse of government power to the exposure of corruption at the local level.

This position will work alongside the other five engineers on the team contributing to the project. You can learn more about our team and colleagues here. As a team, we strive to provide an equitable and collaborative environment. We have strong expectations of mutual respect, kindness, and understanding, and we build those expectations into our work through processes like blameless retrospectives. We share responsibilities for tasks like code review and release management, and support each other in learning and professional development goals.

About the Project

SecureDrop is an open source whistleblower submission system used by journalists to communicate with sources. Through its hardened architecture and the use of the Tor network, it offers whistleblowers strong security and anonymity protections. Used by more than 70 news organizations worldwide, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Al Jazeera, SecureDrop is composed of a variety of components:

SecureDrop Server: an anonymous whistleblowing system, deployed on hardened and Ansible-managed Ubuntu servers, hosting two web applications available as onion services over the Tor network.
SecureDrop Workstation: a platform built on top of Qubes OS to make SecureDrop faster and simpler for journalists to use. It consists of an Electron application and other services that span across a suite of SaltStack-provisioned, task-specific virtual machines.
SecureDrop Protocol: an end-to-end encrypted protocol designed specifically for whistleblowing systems, currently being implemented in Rust as the foundation for the next-generation SecureDrop Server.

The team is developing the next-generation SecureDrop Server, which provides end-to-end encryption while allowing for easier deployments compared with the current system. As part of the team, a successful candidate will have a key role in these efforts.

Responsibilities

Designing and specifying extensions to the SecureDrop end-to-end encryption protocol for new security properties or features (e.g., implementing abuse-resistance features).
Contributing to the formal modeling of the SecureDrop end-to-end encryption protocol.
Implementing client-side encryption for journalist and source communication.
Working with the rest of the team to integrate the protocol into the SecureDrop source and journalist workflows.
Performing code reviews for contributions from the development team and the larger SecureDrop community.
Testing the security properties of current and proposed functionality/architecture.
Working with external collaborators — for example, UX consultants during development of new features, or academic researchers studying SecureDrop or other privacy-enhancing technologies.
Taking turns on maintenance and release tasks with the rest of the team.
Other responsibilities as assigned by the SecureDrop engineering manager.

Qualifications

Must Have

One-plus years of substantial Rust experience, in production, research, or open source projects.
Either (a) five-plus years of full-time experience as a software engineer in a production environment, (b) a master’s degree with three-plus years of full-time experience as a software engineer in a production environment, or © a Ph.D. with one-plus year of substantial coding experience, plus some industry or open source software development experience.
Experience designing or implementing cryptographic protocols.
Strong written communication skills for protocol specifications and technical documentation.
Experience with Git, continuous integration, build automation, and test-driven development.
Experience working as part of collaborative team processes, including routine peer review of code contributions.
A passion for protecting the press freedom rights of all.

Preferred

Tell us in your cover letter if you have experience in one or more of the following areas:

Familiarity with formal modeling tools (Tamarin, ProVerif, or similar).
Interest in keeping up with the state-of-the-art in testing and verification techniques.
Experience with academic or industry cryptography research.
Experience with threat modeling, auditing, and vulnerability management.
Experience implementing cryptography in web environments.
Experience with Qubes, Tails, Tor, or other privacy/security technologies.
Contributions to open source software, especially cryptographic libraries or protocol implementations.
Experience developing technologies to support activist, journalist, or civil society communities.

Working with Us

This is a full-time role with a competitive nonprofit salary in the range of $120,000–$140,000, depending on experience. This position is available to all U.S.-based remote candidates. For more information on our full benefits package, please visit our website’s careers page. FPF does not discriminate on the basis of an individual’s sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual or reproductive health decisions, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other personal characteristics protected by law.

How to Apply

If you think you’d like to be a part of our team, please submit your résumé and a cover letter (no longer than one page).

After an initial application review, FPF’s hiring process involves a phone screening and a timed skills assessment. For candidates moving to the final stages, a teamwide panel and a final meeting with our CTO and executive director will follow.

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[Full-time] Cloud Systems Engineer at OpenNebula Systems

2026-04-15 07:30:55

Location: Madrid,
URL: https://careers.opennebula.io/jobs/7561139-cloud-systems-engineer

Description:

We are currently looking for a Cloud Systems Engineer to come and join us in Europe as part of our new team developing the next generation management platform for the Cloud-Edge Computing Continuum.

For over a decade now, OpenNebula Systems has been leading the development of the European open source technology that helps organizations around the world to manage their corporate data centers and build their Enterprise Clouds.

If you want to join an established leader in the cloud infrastructure industry and the global open source community, keep reading, because you can now join a team of exceptionally passionate and talented colleagues whose mission is to help the world’s leading enterprises to implement their next-generation edge and cloud strategies. We are hiring!

Since 2019, and thanks to the support from the European Commission, OpenNebula Systems has been leading the edge computing innovation in Europe, investing heavily in research and open source development, and playing a key role in strategic EU initiatives such as the IPCEI-CIS and the “European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud”.

We are currently looking for a Cloud Systems Engineer to come and join us in Europe as part of our new team developing the next generation management platform for the Cloud-Edge Computing Continuum.

Job Description

Cloud Systems Engineers are responsible for the deployment and support of large edge and cloud-based use cases, pilot and POC systems and services. They work on complicated technical issues, resolving them promptly and efficiently. Their responsibilities include communicating with users, addressing their needs, troubleshooting, and providing step by step solutions.

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Responsibilities

*Designing, integrating, deploying, and maintaining large cloud-based solutions, systems and services *Ensuring efficient functioning of cloud functions in accordance with best practices *Interacting with users and use cases, providing systems support, system architecture definition, making recommendations based on user needs, implementation, testing, user training, and deployment of open source solutions *Troubleshooting incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures *Monitoring installed systems and infrastructure.Monitoring and troubleshooting the performance and issues of the cloud system, and updating and maintaining the cloud system *Delivering quality performance indicators within the scope of the assigned project, including project journals, status reports, and other standard documentation *Working with other companies in the cloud-edge ecosystem within international projects and open-source communities. Availability to occasional travel and participation in international events and meetings *Working with the development teams in the escalation of support issues, the use cases and solutions team in discovery and demo sessions, and the community team in contributions to the open-source community *Writing and maintaining software documentation and project reports

Experience required

Academic Background and Certifications

*Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Professional Experience

*Hands-on experience in cloud systems integration and support using open-source technologies *Experience with Cloud Management platforms and their associated technologies. Understand the implication of managing virtualized infrastructures and the orchestration of the underlying subsystems

Technical Experience

*Experience in developing and maintaining Ruby code base for system applications with knowledge of computing systems integration and the interaction with the operating system facilities like I/O, networking and virtualization *Experience integrating computing systems specially related to virtualization, storage and networking. Knowledge of KVM/QEMU virtualization, including qcow2 and management of Virtual Machines; storage systems (usage and administration) NAS and SAN, specially for storing VM disk images; and Linux networking stack including VLAN protocols, package filtering, basic routing protocols, Open vSwitch, and DPDK *Experience writing Terraform modules and managing deployments of virtualized infrastructures with Terraform *Experience deploying and using monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus. Design monitoring metrics and associated data structure. Elaborate and analyze usage reports obtained from the monitor data

Language Skills

English fluency at a professional or native-equivalent level, with excellent clarity and expression in both writing and speech.

Soft Skills & Collaboration

*Strong customer service mindset, with a focus on responsiveness and user satisfaction. *Clear communication and documentation with strong written and verbal English, async collaboration, and visibility of work. *Self-management and accountability with ability to work independently, manage time, and take ownership of tasks and deadlines *Technical autonomy and tool proficiency with confidence in using Git, CI/CD, remote collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, GitHub, etc.), and solving problems without direct supervision

What’s in it for me?

*Some of our benefits and perks vary depending on location and employment type, but we are proud to provide employees with the following; *Competitive compensation package and Flexible Remuneration Options: Meals, Transport, Nursery/Childcare… *Company-provided workstation *Private Health Insurance *6 hours workday on Fridays and everyday during August *PTO: Holidays, Personal Time, Sick Time, Parental leave. *All Remote company with bright HQ centrally located in Madrid, and offices in Boston (USA) and Brno (Czech Republic) *Healthy Work-Life Balance : We encourage the right for Digital Disconnecting and promote harmony between employees personal and professional lives *Flexible hiring options: Full Time/Part Time, Employee (Spain/Usa) / Contractor (other locations) *We are building an awesome, Engineering First Culture and your opinion matters: Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued *Be exposed to a broad technology ecosystem. We encourage learning and researching new technologies and methods as part of your everyday duties

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[Freelance] QubesOS BusKill package at BusKill

2026-04-07 16:13:18

Location: Worldwide
URL: https://www.buskill.in/qubes-package-bounty/

Description:

We have a bounty available (currently >$2,000) for the creation of a QubesOS Contrib Package for BusKill.

Current Bounty Value: $2,340.00 USD
Estimated Dev Time: 2-4 days
More details: https://www.buskill.in/qubes-package-bounty/

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