> package maintenance and management has been an ever-increasing burden to the point that we've tried hiring somebody specifically for the role I do packaging

> package maintenance and management has been an ever-increasing burden to the point that we've tried hiring somebody specifically for the role I do packaging work at my current job, and it's one of my favorite tasks there. I currently maintain a small collection of private Nix packages for macOS and Linux, and last week spun up a private Homebrew tap (for Casks only!) on a lark. I have some experience packaging things in other formats, too, and I'd be happy to pick up a new one if I had a use case. But it has literally never occurred to me to look for a packaging job specifically! I didn't know roles dedicated to packaging were available anywhere. > How would someone/a company go about finding people that are actually interested in this kind of work? Even when I'm happy at work, I'm generally interested in keeping an eye on jobs where Nix skills are desired. 'Nix' itself is hard to search for (because it's ambiguous with *nix as an abbreviation for Unix-likes), so I also search for 'NixOS' and 'Nixpkgs' on job search sites sometimes. I don't think I've ever once seen a result for 'Nixpkgs', so any listing that mentioned that would stand out, and a job explicitly titled something like 'software packager', 'software distribution engineer', 'package management engineer', etc., would definitely catch my eye. Job boards and development mailing lists for large package collections (Linux distros, BSD ports collections, and other collections like Conda) would also likely have some interested people! (In the case of the latter, just make sure that job posts are in line with the norms of the list.) Communities surrounding advanced build systems (Bazel, Buck, Pants, etc.) would also probably be good places to look.