Software Engineer – DevOps for Global Digital Archives

Filecoin Foundation; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Health benefits

HSA/FSA

Commuter benefits

Disability coverage

Retirement programs

Job summary

Internet Archive, a nonprofit in San Francisco, is seeking a Software Engineer focused on DevOps to grow the Archiving & Data Services group. The role involves scaling digital archiving, data services, and access products for a global partner network, with collaboration across distributed teams and occasional in-person meetings.

The successful candidate will contribute to production systems end-to-end, including deployment migrations to Kubernetes/ArgoCD, and will work in a time-overlapping

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: 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

Project coordination

Tools

Python

Django

Postgres

Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Job description

Internet Archive, a nonprofit in San Francisco, is seeking a Software Engineer focused on DevOps to grow the Archiving & Data Services group. The role involves scaling digital archiving, data services, and access products for a global partner network, with collaboration across distributed teams and occasional in-person meetings.

The successful candidate will contribute to production systems end-to-end, including deployment migrations to Kubernetes/ArgoCD, and will work in a time-overlapping