Internet Archive Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Type: Full time

Location: Remote, our headquarters is in San Francisco, CA

About Internet Archive and the Open Staffing Foundation
Open Staffing Foundation (OSF) is a nonprofit that provides staffing services for the Internet Archive and other mission aligned organizations.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library, headquartered in San Francisco, with an ambitious mission: to provide “Universal Access to All Knowledge” — the books, web pages, audio, television and software of our shared human culture. Our 150 team members have built one of the top 300 websites in the world, https://archive.org/. The Internet Archive digitizes thousands of books a day and collects a hundred million web pages a week. In its 25+ years, it has built one of the largest digital libraries in the world by working with hundreds of national and international libraries, archives, museums, universities, and non-profits.

Job Summary

Reports to the Senior Engineering Manager, Archiving & Data Services and works in the engineering team to help grow the Archiving & Data Services group’s suite of digital archiving, data, and access services for a global set of partner research, memory, and social good organizations. Responsibilities include: supporting and scaling our web archiving service (Archive-It); contributing to specific development projects for other department-managed services and systems; helping to build and improve foundational systems, services, and developer tools; operating on our self-owned and operated data centers; and working to support products for a global coalition of institutions.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead projects across the full software development lifecycle: plan, design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions

• Engage in significant time overlaps with North America staff, working on Pacific Time.

• Evolve system architectures to support future requirements, improve reliability, and reduce operational burden

• Triage, resolve, and address root causes of production issues

• Support engineering leadership with project coordination, strategic planning, and operational execution

• Work on our web archiving service (Archive-It), a service currently used by over 1000 partner organizations to archive and provide public access to web collections totaling many petabytes of data and that archives billions of files each year

• Build and improve foundational systems, services, and developer tools that support values-aligned products, at petabyte scale, operating on our self-owned and operated data centers ensuring open access to digital information for a global coalition of institutions

• Foster a culture of collaboration and learning, reinforce team processes that are working, and identify potential technology or workflow improvements
  

Competencies to Succeed in the Role

• A commitment to the mission - to provide “Universal Access to All Knowledge”.

• Knows how to work well with a team with diverse skills and is willing to share knowledge and be open to learning from others.

• Ability to own production systems end to end (design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement)

• Knows how to work in a distributed team structure

• Able to attend some in-person team meetings (expected attendance two meetings per year)

Education and Experience

• Required: Five (5)+ years of experience as a Software Engineer focused on infrastructure, DevOps, or site reliability

• Required: Experience building and operating observability stacks

• Required: Experience with Kubernetes in production environments

• Preferred: Technical leadership experience (mentoring, leading projects, design review)

Benefits & Perks

Internet Archive works with Open Staffing Foundation to recruit, hire and retain staff. Open Staffing Foundation offers a comprehensive benefits package, including PTO, paid holidays, medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and retirement programs.

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At the Open Staffing Foundation, we believe our best work happens when diverse perspectives come together. We strongly encourage applications from individuals in groups underrepresented in the tech and library industries. We are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer, committed to fair employment practices regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

We also aspire to make the online job application process accessible to any and all users. If you have a disability that impacts your ability to complete the application process, and would like to request assistance or accommodation, please contact us: info@archive.com

Lastly, pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.