Senior Software Engineer - DevOps & Archiving Systems

Internet Archive; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Retirement plan

Commuter benefits

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Internet Archive in San Francisco seeks a Software Engineer to join the Archiving & Data Services group. You will lead projects across the full software development lifecycle to build scalable archiving, data, and access products for global partners.

The role emphasizes migrating deployments to Kubernetes/ArgoCD, improving reliability, and collaborating with North American staff in a distributed team.

Qualifications

• Five (5)+ years of experience as a Software Engineer focused on DevOps, operations, and backend engineering.
• Experience with, or ability to learn, core technologies in use in the department, including Python, Django, Postgres, and Elasticsearch.
• Preferred : Experience with Kubernetes in production environments and migrating to Kubernetes-based deployments.
• Preferred: Technical leadership experience (mentoring, leading projects, design review)

Responsibilities

• Lead projects across the full software development lifecycle: plan, design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain software solutions.
• Evolve system architectures and services to support future requirements, improve reliability, and reduce operational burden.
• Help plan and execute a migration of the team’s deployment from Ansible-based VM deployments to Kubernetes and ArgoCD-based deployments.
• Triage, resolve, and address root causes of production issues.
• Support engineering leadership with project coordination, strategic planning, and operational execution.
• Support the development, deployment, and operations of SaaS web applications, public search and discovery websites, and web crawling and playback operations.
• Build and improve foundational systems, services, and developer tools.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and learning, reinforce team processes that are working, and identify potential technology or workflow improvements.

Skills

DevOps

Backend engineering

Python

Django

Elasticsearch

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Ansible

ArgoCD

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

ArgoCD

Docker

Job description

Internet Archive in San Francisco seeks a Software Engineer to join the Archiving & Data Services group. You will lead projects across the full software development lifecycle to build scalable archiving, data, and access products for global partners.

The role emphasizes migrating deployments to Kubernetes/ArgoCD, improving reliability, and collaborating with North American staff in a distributed team.