Senior Search Engineer at ARCHIVE

The Internet Archive is seeking a Principal/Senior Engineer to lead the development of our open source search tools and platforms. In this role you will take responsibility for leading the development of our Web-scale, open source, search services, as well as working with other team members to define a strategy and execution plan, including identifying service requirements and defining product specifications.

The Internet Archive is based in San Francisco's Presidio. Find out more about our organization and web archive of over 100 billion URL captures at www.archive.org , as well as our tools and services at http://wa.archive.org/

Requirements:

• Exceptional software programming skills
• Experience in software or algorithm design, preferably in the areas of search or distributed systems.
• Strong foundation in distributed system architecture and development
• Must be comfortable with an open source development environment (Linux, Apache, Java, MySQL, etc.)
• Direct experience with large-scale search systems is desirable
• Ability to understand and extend an existing application's architecture and design.
• Experience building distributed systems and/or large scale database applications.
• Must be able to work independently, and as part of a team.
• Ability to work in, and enjoy, a loosely structured startup-like environment
• Flexibility and a sense of humor
• Familiarity/experience with open source search projects: Lucene, Nutch, Solr, desired but not required
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

We are an equal opportunity employer. Please send your resume and cover letter to kristine at archive dot org with the subject line "Search Engineer". The Archive thanks all applicants for their interest, but advises that only those selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.

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