## translation metadata # Revision: $Revision$ # Translation-Priority: 3-low #include "head.wmi" TITLE="Tor Project: Jobs (core developer)" CHARSET="UTF-8" <div id="content" class="clearfix"> <div id="breadcrumbs"> <a href="<page index>">Home » </a> <a href="<page about/overview>">About » </a> <a href="<page about/jobs>">Jobs</a> </div> <div id="maincol"> <h1>The Tor Project is looking for another dedicated core developer!</h1> <h1>Note: we've filled this position for now, but we hope to be looking for another core developer in the future.</h1> <p> Your job would be to work on all aspects of the main Tor network daemon and other open-source software. This would be a contractor position starting in 2013 (with plenty of work to keep you busy), with the possibility of 2014 and beyond. </p> <p> Any candidate must: </p> <ul> <li>Have extensive experience in C, and several other programming languages. At least 5 years experience with C is probably necessary for the level of expertise we want; most people would need more.</li> <li>Have a solid understanding of issues surrounding secure C programming.</li> <li>Be comfortable working remotely.</li> <li>Be familiar and experienced with nonblocking, event-driven networking programs.</li> <li>Be comfortable and experienced with interacting with users online.</li> <li>Be comfortable and experienced with driving the entire lifecycle of a new feature in an existing piece of software, from design to implementation to testing.</li> <li>Be comfortable and experienced getting code and design reviewed, and reviewing the code and design of others.</li> <li>Be comfortable with transparency: as a non-profit, everything we do is in public, including your name and pay rate.</li> </ul> <p> An ideal candidate would also: </p> <ul> <li>Know enough of the basics of cryptography in order to understand how to implement our protocols and discuss changes to them. (Actually implementing block ciphers and stuff like that isn't necessary.)</li> <li>Know enough about networking in order to understand how to implement our protocols and discuss changes to them.</li> <li>Have experience with high-performance networking code.</li> <li>Have experience with open-source software development, including working with distributed teams across different time-zones containing employees and volunteers of differing skill levels over email and IRC.</li> <li>Have basic familiarity with distributed version control systems.</li> <li>Have contributed significant chunks of code to multiple open-source projects in the past.</li> <li>Genuinely be excited about Tor and our values.</li> </ul> <p> Being a core Tor developer includes triaging, diagnosing, and fixing bugs; looking for and resolving security issues; and working collaboratively with coworkers and volunteers on implementing new features and protocol changes at every stage from design to maintenance. We'd also need help making our code more scalable, testable, and maintainable. Sometimes, we need to drop everything and scramble to implement last-minute anticensorship schemes, or to deploy urgent security updates. You'd also be reviewing other people's code and designs, and looking for ways to improve it. For an idea of the breadth and depth of the work you'd be doing, have a look at <a href="https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/HEAD:/ChangeLog">the ChangeLog file from the Tor source distribution</a>. </p> <p> Other notes: </p> <ul> <li>You'll need to be comfortable in this environment! We coordinate via IRC, instant messaging, email, and bug trackers.</li> <li>Academic degrees are great, but not required if you have the right experience.</li> <li>We only write free and open source software, and we don't believe in software patents.</li> </ul> <p> How to apply: </p> <ul> <li>Link to a sample of code you've written in the past that you're allowed to show us.</li> <li>Provide a CV explaining your background, experience, skills, and other relevant qualifications.</li> <li>List some people who can tell us more about you: these references could be employers or coworkers, open source projects, etc.</li> <li>Email the above to jobs at torproject.org.</li> </ul> <p> About the company:<br> The Tor Project is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to research, development, and education about online anonymity and privacy. The Tor network's 3000 volunteer relays carry 16 Gbps for upwards of half a million daily users, including ordinary citizens who want protection from identity theft and prying corporations, corporations who want to look at a competitor's website in private, people around the world whose Internet connections are censored, and even governments and law enforcement. Tor has a staff of 14 paid developers, researchers, and advocates, plus many dozen volunteers who help out on a daily basis. Tor is funded in part by government research and development grants, and in part by individual and corporate donations. </p> </div> <!-- END MAINCOL --> <div id = "sidecol"> #include "side.wmi" #include "info.wmi" </div> <!-- END SIDECOL --> </div> <!-- END CONTENT --> #include <foot.wmi>