Interested in a mission-driven job ensuring open access to information for a global audience? Enjoy building products critical to thousands of libraries, non-profits, cultural heritage, and educational organizations worldwide? Internet Archive is seeking a backend software engineer for its Archiving & Data Services team. Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit digital library, top 200 website at archive.org, and an archive of over 150 petabytes of digital information running in many self-owned and operated data centers. Internet Archive also provides mission-aligned services to thousands of organizations worldwide, working collaboratively to advance our goal of “Universal Access to All Knowledge.”

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in software engineering for web applications and the systems that support them
• Strong programming skills
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills, and the ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize tasks, and complete assigned projects with minimal supervision

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building without the aid of cloud services (we own and operate our own data centers)
• Experience building, and maintaining web applications with Python and PHP
• Experience developing Java applications
• Experience optimizing and maintaining stateful systems like Postgres, Elasticsearch, and HDFS
• Experience working on high traffic web applications
• Strong troubleshooting and dynamic analysis skills
• Strong working knowledge of Linux and networked computing environments

• Design, build, and maintain the core systems and applications powering Internet Archive’s services
• Build without the cloud in our on-premises data centers
• Ensure our core services meet the needs of our user-facing applications
• Identify and address performance bottlenecks as we continue growing our collections at an exponential rate
• Write automated tests for everything you build
• Perform security maintenance and address technical debt in security-critical components
• Diagnose system operational problems quickly and effectively
• Help maintain stateful infrastructure like Postgres, Elasticsearch, and HDFS