About PerlJobs

Why we built this

For years, jobs.perl.org was the go-to place for Perl developers to find work and for companies to find experienced Perl talent. It was a simple, reliable resource that helped keep the Perl ecosystem employed and connected.

That site has been effectively abandoned — no new postings, no maintenance, no community presence. We didn't think that was acceptable. Perl is not dead, Perl developers are not scarce, and companies building on Perl deserve a place to find each other.

So we built PerlJobs to fill that gap.

Our mission

PerlJobs exists for one reason: to support Perl in the workplace. That means:

• Giving Perl developers a dedicated place to find jobs that actually use Perl
• Helping companies built on Perl — whether that's Mojolicious web apps, data pipelines, system tools, or decades-old codebases that still run the world — find developers who know and value the language
• Keeping Perl visible as a serious, production-ready choice in an era that too often overlooks it
• Providing a straightforward, no-noise alternative to general job boards where Perl listings get buried or ignored

Perl is alive

Perl powers an enormous amount of the internet's infrastructure, financial systems, bioinformatics pipelines, hosting platforms, and enterprise software. It has a mature CPAN ecosystem with over 200,000 modules, a stable and modern runtime, and a community of developers who chose it deliberately — not by accident.

Modern Perl with Mojolicious, Dancer2, DBIx::Class, and the broader CPAN ecosystem is a genuinely productive and enjoyable platform. There are real teams doing real work in Perl every day, and they deserve a job board that takes that seriously.

Who built this

PerlJobs was built by a long-time Perl developer who has spent their career working with the language and watching the community evolve. They work at Pair Networks, a web hosting company that has been running Perl-based infrastructure since 1996, and who graciously provides the hosting that powers this site.

This is a personal project born out of genuine frustration at seeing the Perl job market lose its dedicated home, and a conviction that the community deserves better. Pair Networks didn't commission it — they just made it possible.

This site is itself written in Perl, using Mojolicious.