If the package is in Ubuntu Main repository (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-updates-releases-and-reposito...), it is maintained by Canonical engineers for LTS. Ubuntu Universe gets security fixes for up to 10 years as part of the Ubuntu Pro offering, which is where most of the upstream Debian packages are.
Concur - an SAP group company, is one of the largest SaaS companies in the world. Based out of Seattle-US, Concur is the leader in integrated travel & expense with over 30,000 enterprise customers & 100 million end users. More than 75% of Fortune-500 companies use Concur as their Travel & Expense solution.
Concur's rapid growth requires a scalable, resilient, internet-scale backend. The Core-Services team based out of Concur's Bangalore office works on scaling the Concur platform by writing resilient, scalable, backend-services.
The Role: Senior Backend Engineer
We write backend-services that make up the 3rd largest SaaS platform in the world. We focus on authentication, authorization, identity, sso stacks, token services etc. We design, write & deploy to AWS - with complete end to end ownership. We are obsessed with performance, metrics, resiliency, failure proofing & scalability.
Clojure is our poison of choice.
We are looking for programmers with experience in writing scalable services.
Prerequisites:
* You speak Lisp. Any dialect.
* Proficiency with functional programming techniques.
If the package is in Ubuntu Main repository (https://ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-updates-releases-and-reposito...), it is maintained by Canonical engineers for LTS. Ubuntu Universe gets security fixes for up to 10 years as part of the Ubuntu Pro offering, which is where most of the upstream Debian packages are.
A package from Ubuntu can be removed using the following process, Anyone can file a request. https://canonical-ubuntu-project.readthedocs-hosted.com/stag... (note: the url will move to documentation.ubuntu.com domain)
Debian also has https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=openssl, but it does not mean that a package with very low popularity should be removed.