Sovereign Tech Agency
Government·Germany·3 programs
German public investor in open digital base technologies: the libraries, package managers, protocol implementations, encryption tooling and developer infrastructure other software depends on. Funds maintenance, security and sustainability work in the public interest, explicitly not prototypes or user-facing apps.
What Sovereign Tech Agency funds
Pays open source maintainers, community managers and technical writers directly as freelance contractors for 3 to 12 months at 6 to 32 hours a week; hourly rate negotiated, not published.
Funds development and maintenance of foundational open source infrastructure where the described work costs more than EUR 50,000, applied for continuously via an application platform.
Up to three two-year salaried positions at Sovereign Tech Agency GmbH paying EUR 64,000 to 82,000 a year full time, for maintainers located in and authorised to work in Germany.