Software Engineer

Job description

The Internet Archive is seeking a Software Engineer to help manage the content of our storage cluster. The software developed by the core infrastructure engineering team adds new data to the cluster, verifies it, derives additional data from it, makes it available to our front-end systems for public distribution, and assures its long-term integrity.

This role involves improving a long-lived codebase while it is in constant, high-volume use. We prioritize code that will remain maintainable long into the future, because it is clean, readable, well-structured, extensible, and highly reliable. While PHP is the primary language, deep prior experience with PHP is not required—just a willingness to apply your skills to the PHP environment. You'll also be responsible for monitoring the behavior of your code in production, and addressing problems as they arise. This is a remote position with some overlap required in US Pacific Time.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and improve the Internet Archive's PHP code base while it operates.
• Diagnose and resolve operational issues.
• Manage data exchange across servers.
• Support user-facing services with back-end functionality.
• Optimize and scale system performance.

Qualifications:

• Detail-oriented with strong technical judgment and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knack for maintaining grace under pressure
• Computer Science degree with 5+ years of experience.
• Also helpful: experience with Linux (Ubuntu), PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, and Git.

Benefits & Perks:

The Internet Archive is a remote-first workplace that 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.

At the Internet Archive, 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.

About the Internet Archive: The 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 90 engineers, archivists, librarians, and 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.