Internet Archive Announces Lead Eng. Role for Archive.org

16 points by mekarpeles ↗ HN
Dream role? Preserve & Empower digital freedom. The Internet Archive just announced a lead tech position for their main Archive.org website.

Be one of five engineers behind one of the world's top 260 websites.

## Champion "Universal Access to All Knowledge":

- Non-profit w/ engineering salary (what?!)

- Great power, great responsibility (3.5M uniques/day)

- Help millions internationally access books, open access papers, and more

- Work in SF, near golden gate park, in massive temple of public knowledge (remote possible!)

- Free Friday lunches & frequent civic-natured events, e.g. decentralizedweb.net

- php, js, react, less; front-end, accessibility, design systems

## At a glance

Have enormous impact, ship code used by millions, help grow a community of contributors, be a key stakeholder in the design & direction of archive.org, work with a small team of engineers with strong culture and mission statement.

## About Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a non-profit in SF which runs the famous Wayback Machine, Open Library -- the world's largest online digital library (openlibrary.org), and Archive.org, the world's largest free dropbox for archivists.

## Fun facts

We've digitized and or archived:

- 100k+ 78 rpm records

- 2M+ hours of archived television

- 2M+ live music/concert tracks by 7.5k artists

- 3M+ books

- 600B+ web pages over time

## In the News

Watch about us on PBS News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8I28erYFLc

## Contact Us

Want to learn more? contact mek@archive.org

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