Contractor Yocto LTS Maintainer - Contractor
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Job Title
Yocto LTS Maintainer - Contractor
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Experienced
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Worldwide
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About the Role
The Yocto Project seeks an experienced LTS Maintainer to maintain its Long-Term Stable (LTS) releases, starting with Yocto Project 6.0 LTS in April 2026.
This role ensures long-term stability, security, and support for Yocto Project’s LTS branches. You’ll work with the current maintainer during a transition phase and own the process of delivering point releases.
If you’re a long-time Yocto/OpenEmbedded contributor with technical skills and a passion for open source sustainability, we’d love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain Core Yocto LTS Layers: bitbake, openembedded-core, meta-yocto, and yocto-docs.
- Monitor and Backport Fixes: Review patches, audit branches for fixes, and queue patches for build/test.
- Release Management: Plan and coordinate LTS dot releases, including release notes, build monitoring, test result review, and scheduling.
- Security and Quality Assurance: Track and assess CVEs, run tools like cve-check, and publish results.
- Community Engagement: Participate in mailing lists, collaborate with contributors, and maintain documentation and planning materials.
Required Experience:
- Strong familiarity with Git
- Open Source development background, ideally in Yocto/OpenEmbedded
- Excellent communication via email and IRC
- Python and shell scripting skills
- Understanding of software security issues (assessment, handling, mitigation)
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with:
- Yocto Project Bugzilla
- Yocto Project Autobuilder
- Patchwork
- Member of OpenEmbedded
- 5+ years of Yocto/OpenEmbedded development
- Long-term software maintenance experience
Work Environment
Fully remote role with preference for candidates in EU or EST time zones
Collaborative team environment with global contributors and stakeholders
Reports to program leadership and works closely with technical maintainers, engineers, and governance representatives
Why Join Us?
This is a unique opportunity to influence one of the most widely adopted open source projects in the embedded and systems space. You’ll collaborate with top engineers and organizations around the world, shaping the direction and delivery of software that powers critical applications.
FAQs
What is the last date for applying to the job?
The deadline to apply for Contractor Yocto LTS Maintainer - Contractor at Linux Foundation is
26th of October 2025
. We consider jobs older than one month to have expired.
Which countries are accepted for this remote job?
This job accepts [
Worldwide
] applicants. .
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