Web Archiving Software Engineer
Senior Application Developer: Archive.org
Senior Engineer: Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive is a non-profit with a huge mission: to give everyone access to all knowledge the books, web pages, audio, television and software of our shared human culture. Forever. Based in San Francisco and with satellites around the world, the Internet Archive staffers are building the digital library of the future--a place where anyone can go to learn and explore. Our 160 engineers, book scanners, librarians, designers and team members have built the 250+ most popular website in the world. (https://archive.org) Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 464 billion archived web pages.
Location: Inner Richmond, San Francisco, CA or Remote
Job Classification: : Full-time, Exempt
Job Summary: The Internet Archive is seeking a Web Crawl Engineer for its Web Archiving Group. Our crawl engineering team is responsible for capturing and managing the highest quality content from the web. An ideal candidate demonstrates independence and initiative, is a problem solver, works well autonomously, and is technologically savvy. Additionally, the ideal candidate is open to being trained on, and helping advance, best practices and standards around large-scale web harvests, web data processing and engineering, and contributing to the development of new harvesting, access, and analysis tools.
The position will work in the Web Archiving Group in support of web harvesting services and programs working with partners ranging from national libraries and archives to collaborative international initiatives supporting the collection, preservation, and accessibility of web content. The role will help design the strategy and implementation of web archiving services using open source technologies and platforms, develop harvest techniques and tools to enable archival capture and re-rendering of rich media, streaming content, social media, as well as traditional web page content. The position will also create tools, services, and workflows to improve crawl analysis, reports, data management and derivation, and identify technical, operational and data analysis requirements. This role contributes to defining deployment architectures and workflows, managing data at scale, and monitoring production systems.
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Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field, five years of progressively responsible experience in software development.
Reporting Structure: The Web Crawl Engineer reports to the Director of Web Archiving and works closely with other departments. The position works alongside other web archiving engineers as well as program staff in Web Archiving Group and with the broader Internet Archive infrastructure and engineering teams.
To Apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs+crawlengineer@archive.org with the subject line "Web Crawl Engineer."
Internet Archive reserves the right to revise job descriptions or work hours as required.
Internet Archive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a 501(c)(3) non profit library founded in 1996.
The Archive will consider for employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Ordinance.
Location: Inner Richmond, San Francisco, CA or Remote
Job Classification: Full-time, Exempt
Job Summary: The Internet Archive has over 24PB of unique digital information, all running across an integrated cluster of over 700 VMs on 500+ bare-metal hosts in 3 data centers. We are looking for a smart engineer with experience in defining and building service APIs. The ideal candidate will also have experience creating software that interacts with systems at high transaction rates while delivering reliability and performance of both internal and public-facing web applications. All candidates must be able to work collaboratively within our Web Archiving team of talented engineers and program staff.
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Reporting Structure: The Web Archiving Software Engineer reports to the Director of Engineering and works closely with the Director, Web Archiving Programs. The position will also work alongside other systems, applications, and QA engineers as well as program staff in Web Archiving Programs team.
To Apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs+webarchivingengineer@archive.org with the subject line "Web Archiving Software Engineer."
Internet Archive reserves the right to revise job descriptions or work hours as required.
Internet Archive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a 501(c)(3) non profit library founded in 1996.
The Archive will consider for employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Ordinance.
Location: Location: San Francisco, CA, remote possible.
Job Classification: : Full-time, Exempt
Senior management position to manage and expand our digitization of millions of books, audio records, films and videotapes to build one of the world's largest digital libraries.
Reporting to the Digital Librarian, the Head of Digitization will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for Internet Archive's 70+ digitization staff in 8 countries, programs, expansion, and execution of the group's mission.
This requires managing people, setting up facilities, creating production processes, and working through process improvements.
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To Apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to hr@archive.org with the subject line "Head of Digitization."
Internet Archive reserves the right to revise job descriptions or work hours as required.
Internet Archive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a 501(c)(3) non profit library founded in 1996.
The Archive will consider for employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Ordinance.
Location: Location: Washington DC area
Job Classification: : Full-time, Non-Exempt
The Book Scanning Operator "Scanner" digitizes and helps de-bug the scanning process in the Internet Archive scanning centers. The Internet Archive has an immediate opening for a Scanner in the Washington DC area.
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This is a non-exempt hourly position. Benefits include; medical, dental, FSA/DCA, 403B, LTD, life insurance.
To Apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to hr@archive.org with the subject line "Scanner DC."
Internet Archive reserves the right to revise job descriptions or work hours as required.
Internet Archive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a 501(c)(3) non profit library founded in 1996.
The Archive will consider for employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Ordinance.
Location: Inner Richmond, San Francisco, CA
Job Classification: Full-time
Job Summary: The Internet Archive is hiring an Administrative Coordinator to join the front office staff in performing the administrative functions that keep our San Francisco headquarters running smoothly. We are looking for a detail-oriented, customer service-oriented, unflappable employee who can work effectively with guests, staff, vendors and our online audience seeking help in accessing the Internet Archive's huge repository of knowledge. The Administrative Coordinator is responsible for managing all front office activities and projects, including the reception area, shipping/receiving, purchasing, event coordination and support, weekly catering and general administrative support with a focus on customer service. The successful candidate will be able to create new systems and procedures, support other specialists from IT to Human Resources, and enjoy organizing dozens of events per year. Reporting to the Manager of Administration and working with a six-person Admin Team, the Administrative Coordinator must take pride and satisfaction in the many tasks, both mundane and profound, that make our workplace function.
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To Apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs+administrativecoordinator@archive.org with the subject line "Administrative Coordinator."
Internet Archive reserves the right to revise job descriptions or work hours as required.
Internet Archive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a 501(c)(3) non profit library founded in 1996.
The Archive will consider for employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Ordinance.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Classification: Full-time, exempt
Job Summary: The Internet Archive has a huge corpus of digital information. Every day, our team of development engineers creates tools and applications that help our users to access and work with 22 petabytes of content that includes millions of books and texts, millions of hours of video, millions of audio tracks, and over 450 billion web captures. We are looking for smart engineers to help develop next generation of web-based applications and tools that will be used by libraries and archives around the world to build and manage curated collections of books, texts, web, and image content. The ideal candidate will be a strong programmer who has successfully led and completed several projects involving large or intricate web applications or services, and who works collaboratively with talented engineering colleagues.
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Reporting Structure:The Web Application Developer reports to the Director of Engineering and will work closely with the web archiving and TV archiving teams. The entire staff is guided by founder and Digital Librarian, Brewster Kahle.
To Apply:Please send your resume and cover letter to Jobs+Seniorapplicationdeveloper@archive.org with the subject line "AE-106: Web Application Developer."
Internet Archive reserves the right to revise job descriptions or work hours as required.
Internet Archive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a 501(c)(3) non profit library founded in 1996.
The Archive will consider for employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Ordinance.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Classification: Full-time, exempt
Job Summary:The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the world's largest public archive of historical web sites. Have you ever wanted to work with 450 billion things at once? Would you like to serve 1,500 requests per second? How about having your service referred to regularly in news articles and blog posts across the web? You can work on a challenging and popular project and help the world at the same time.
We are looking for a smart, collaborative and resourceful engineer to help develop the next version of the Wayback Machine. The ideal candidate will possess a desire to work collaboratively with a small internal team and a large, vocal and active user community; demonstrating independence, creativity, initiative and technological savvy, in addition to being a great programmer/architect.
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To Apply: Please send your resume and cover letter to Jobs+SeniorWaybackEngineer@archive.org with the subject line "Wayback Machine Senior Engineer."
Internet Archive reserves the right to revise job descriptions or work hours as required.
Internet Archive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a 501(c)(3) non profit library founded in 1996.
The Archive will consider for employment-qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Chance Ordinance.