Software Engineer — Archiving and Data Services

Job overview

The Software Engineer role is remote for US-based candidates authorized to work in the United States, with significant overlap with North American and Pacific Time Zone staff and some in-person meetings, generally twice per year. The salary range is $110,000–$130,000 per year. The role supports the Archiving & Data Services group and Internet Archive's mission of universal access to knowledge. The engineer develops and operates software and services for digital archiving, data, and access products used by partner organizations. Full-lifecycle engineering, reliability improvements, and deployment modernization help preserve and provide access to digital information at petabyte scale.

What you'll do

• Lead software projects through planning, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• evolve architectures and services for future needs, reliability, and reduced operational burden
• help migrate deployments from Ansible-based virtual machines to Kubernetes and ArgoCD
• resolve production issues and root causes
• support project coordination and operations
• develop and operate SaaS applications, search and discovery websites, and web crawling and playback
• improve foundational systems and developer tools.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

software engineer

remote us

open staffing foundation

internet archive

$110k–$130k

digital archiving

devops

backend engineering

python

django

postgres

elasticsearch

kubernetes

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• PTO, paid holidays, medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, short- and long-term disability coverage, and retirement programs

Why this role

US work authorization required; five or more years of software engineering experience focused on DevOps, operations, and backend engineering. Kubernetes experience is preferred.

About the employer

Open Staffing Foundation is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.