C Developer Intern (remote work)

We are seeking talented and motivated C Developer Interns to join our TuxCare team. As an intern at TuxCare, you will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in C development and contribute to the development of our innovative projects.

TuxCare offers a portfolio of security solutions for Linux and open-source software aimed at enterprise organizations. With TuxCare, enterprises can automate live vulnerability patching, minimize downtime, keep their applications secure and compliant, and get support from a team that knows Linux security best – covering the most popular Linux distributions, end-of-life systems, programming languages, and much more. For more information, visit our website: tuxcare.com.

This internship is currently open within our Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS) team:

Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS) is one of TuxCare’s key products, enabling organizations to securely continue using Linux distributions and software languages that have reached end of life or no longer receive standard security updates. ELS delivers vulnerability patches for unsupported versions of CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, and Oracle Linux, as well as for runtimes and frameworks such as PHP, Python, Spring, Angular/AngularJS, Django, and Flask.

More details: tuxcare.com/endless-lifecycle-support.

In this role, you will

Review and validate patches for C and systems code, including fixes produced by our automation and AI tools

Handle the hard cases automation can’t: tricky backports, corner cases and failing builds

Research CVEs and backport security fixes to older package versions

Build and maintain packages across RPM- and DEB-based distributions

Process tickets and help unblock reviews

Use AI coding assistants every day and learn to check their output critically

This is a remote internship opportunity, allowing you to work from anywhere and have a flexible schedule.

If you are a passionate individual interested in gaining practical experience in C development and contributing to meaningful projects, we would love to hear from you!

Apply now and kick-start your career with TuxCare!

What we’re looking for

Hands-on C experience: you can read, debug and reason about C / systems code

Comfortable with GNU/Linux, the command line and shell scripting

Experience using Git for development and patch/branch management

Solid fundamentals in algorithms and data structures

Comfortable using AI coding assistants day-to-day: good prompting, and you can spot when the output is wrong

Debugging with GDB and strace

Broad awareness of the AI-assisted development landscape: different models for different tasks, common tooling

Benefits

What's in it for you?

Interesting and challenging projects;

Fully remote work with flexible working hours, that allows you to schedule your day and work from any location worldwide;

Paid vacation, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves;

Budget for education;

The opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent;

Learn AI-assisted development workflows across the full development lifecycle, from CVE research and backporting to code review

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