Backend Software Engineer

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March 21

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Internet Archive

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Non-profit • Media • Education

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library that offers free access to a vast collection of digital content, including websites, books, audio, and video. It aims to provide universal access to all knowledge by preserving the global digital culture and history for future generations.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1996

🤝 Non-profit

📱 Media

📚 Education

📋 Description

• 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. • 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• PTO • paid holidays • medical benefits • dental • vision • health savings accounts • flex spending accounts • commuter benefits • short term disability • long term disability • retirement programs