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[tor-bugs] #29242 [Webpages/Website]: Please post job description to website (OONI Backend Developer)
#29242: Please post job description to website (OONI Backend Developer)
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Reporter: ewyatt | Owner: hiro
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: High | Milestone:
Component: Webpages/Website | Version:
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
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Internet Freedom Nonprofit Seeks Backend Engineer for OONI
The Tor Project, Inc. is looking for a dedicated backend engineer to work
on OONI (https://ooni.torproject.org/). OONI is the Open Observatory of
Network Interference: a free and open source software, global observation
network for detecting censorship, surveillance, and traffic manipulation
on the internet.
You will be working to improve OONI’s data processing pipeline and other
backend components responsible for recording measurements collected from
our growing global user network. You will also be tasked with improving
our network measurement methodologies and data analysis heuristics to
increase the accuracy of our experiments.
This is a full-time 12-month contract position, starting ASAP (no later
than mid-May 2019); contract may be extended.
The OONI team is based in Europe. However, this position may be performed
remotely.
Here are some of our code repositories:
https://github.com/ooni/api
https://github.com/ooni/pipeline
https://github.com/ooni/orchestra
https://github.com/ooni/collector
https://github.com/ooni/sysadmin
Required skills and qualifications:
- - Extensive experience in python or golang.
- - Comfortable working remotely.
- - Self-directed, self-disciplined, but good at working and communicating
with a team.
- - Have experience and be comfortable with others reviewing your code and
design; have experience and be comfortable reviewing others’ code.
- - Experience documenting and designing protocols.
- - Be comfortable with transparency!
Preferred qualifications:
- - Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable complex
network applications.
- - Working experience with data processing pipelines.
- - Possess the confidence to refactor code and write unit-tests.
- - Familiarity with the challenges of developing and scaling data
processing pipelines.
- - Familiarity with the network measurement field.
- - Experience with open-source software development, including working
with distributed teams across different time-zones containing employees
and volunteers of differing skill levels.
- - Basic familiarity with distributed version control systems.
- - Contributed significant chunks of code to multiple open-source
projects in the past.
- - Be passionate about internet freedom and interested in contributing to
it in a concrete way!
Other notes:
Academic degrees are great but not required if you have the right
experience.
You should be very good at working remotely at communicating with the team
on a daily basis via Slack, IRC, instant messaging, email, and issue
trackers.
Salary negotiable.
How to apply:
Please email a *PDF* of your resume/CV, and a cover letter explaining how
your qualifications and experience meet the requirements of this job
description. Please include the reasons why you want to work on OONI.
Please also include link to one or several code samples (of which you are
authorized to share), and also your GitHub or GitLab profile, and three
professional references.
Email should be sent to jobs at openobservatory dot org with "OONI Backend
Engineer" in the subject line.
About the project:
The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software
project under the Tor Project. OONI collects and processes network
measurements with the aim of detecting network interferences, such as
censorship, surveillance, and traffic manipulation. Since late 2012, OONI
has collected millions of measurements across more than 90 countries
around the world.
The Tor Project, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that
provides the technical infrastructure for privacy protection over the
Internet. With paid staff and contractors of around 30 technologists and
operational support people, plus many volunteers all over the world who
contribute to our work, the Tor Project is funded in part by government
grants and contracts, as well as by individual, foundation, and corporate
donations. We only write free and open source software, and we don't
believe in software patents.
The Tor Project, Inc., is an equal opportunity, affirmative action
employer.
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