Dear all,
eQualitie is seeking an experienced networking software engineer for DevOps and infrastructure automation duties. We’re looking for someone who knows how to build and manage cloud services with an emphasis on FOSS solutions that we run in-house. Our new colleague shares the company’s values and is ready to play an important role in protecting freedom of expression and association on the Internet. In turn, you will get exposure to and a say in the design of current and future defensive web technologies and decentralized solutions for avoiding Internet censorship, as well as personal satisfaction that your contributions create real change for people around the world.
Job Description
You will work across tight-knit project teams and interface between software developers and systems operations. Your primary responsibilities will include building and tuning tools to improve network availability, service performance and censorship resilience. You will introduce common systems and processes for a variety of in-house technologies, spanning DDoS mitigation, a clearinghouse for anomalous network behaviour and a decentralized peer-to-peer web caching network. You will take an “automate everything” approach, introducing and improving automation, orchestration and monitoring tooling across the board.
About you
You love dashboards and hate network latency. You understand the building blocks of the Internet and are familiar with its core protocols, including decentralized networking. You value infrastructure-as-code systems and believe in prototyping, fine-tuning software configurations and performance monitoring as the primary ways to improve an Internet- reliant product or service. You have a depth of knowledge, experience and a passion for Internet technologies that allow you to learn new systems relatively quickly. Also, you will have:
Now, a little bit about us…
eQualitie is
a growing technology company that puts its principles before
profits. This is a relatively fast-paced environment with a strong
sense of individual contribution. We solve complex technical
problems for improving digital defences, introducing privacy to
online activity and enabling freedom of expression and association
online. We are a remote-first company and offer flexible working
arrangements, contributions to private health care, annual pay
raises, prospects for professional growth and social
opportunities. eQualitie welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
The Deflect
project protects over 650 website platforms from cyber
attack, serving over 70 million unique IPs annually. Deployed on
bare-metal infrastructure locations around the world, Deflect
offers web caching, secure hosting and defense-in-depth mitigation
options, including the Baskerville clearinghouse,
among other services.
CENO
Browser is a tool designed to circumvent the most
pervasive forms of Internet censorship. Built on Mozilla for
Android and the Ouinet
libraries, CENO enables users to retrieve and share
web content peer-to-peer over Bittorrent’s DHT.
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How to apply
Please send your resume and a cover letter explaining how
your experiences and motivation match our requirements. Please
make sure to include your GitHub (or similar) profile where we can
see your previous work and/or code:
https://equalit.ie/job-post/devops-engineer-for-a-better-internet/
Reach out to me if you'd like to know more! I've had a great time
working with this team over the past 9 months, and am looking
forward to expanding the team :)
Warmly,