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Internet Archive Announces Lead Eng. Role for Archive.org

16 pointsby mekarpelesalmost 7 years ago
Dream role? Preserve &amp; Empower digital freedom. The Internet Archive just announced a lead tech position for their main Archive.org website.<p>Be one of five engineers behind one of the world&#x27;s top 260 websites.<p>## Champion &quot;Universal Access to All Knowledge&quot;:<p>- Non-profit w&#x2F; engineering salary (what?!)<p>- Great power, great responsibility (3.5M uniques&#x2F;day)<p>- Help millions internationally access books, open access papers, and more<p>- Work in SF, near golden gate park, in massive temple of public knowledge (remote possible!)<p>- Free Friday lunches &amp; frequent civic-natured events, e.g. decentralizedweb.net<p>- php, js, react, less; front-end, accessibility, design systems<p>## At a glance<p>Have enormous impact, ship code used by millions, help grow a community of contributors, be a key stakeholder in the design &amp; direction of archive.org, work with a small team of engineers with strong culture and mission statement.<p>## About Internet Archive<p>Internet Archive is a non-profit in SF which runs the famous Wayback Machine, Open Library -- the world&#x27;s largest online digital library (openlibrary.org), and Archive.org, the world&#x27;s largest free dropbox for archivists.<p>## Fun facts<p>We&#x27;ve digitized and or archived:<p>- 100k+ 78 rpm records<p>- 2M+ hours of archived television<p>- 2M+ live music&#x2F;concert tracks by 7.5k artists<p>- 3M+ books<p>- 600B+ web pages over time<p>## In the News<p>Watch about us on PBS News: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=K8I28erYFLc<p>## Contact Us<p>Want to learn more? contact mek@archive.org

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