Development/Operations Programmer - Databrary Project

Description

Summary

The Databrary project seeks a motivated and flexible DevOps engineer to help maintain and enhance an open source web-based video library. You will work with users, librarians, and a small team of developers to design and build tools to enable behavioral researchers to collaborate, store, explore, and access video-based research datasets. This is a growth position with ample opportunity to enhance your programming skills and take ownership of a critical service for the research community.
Responsibilities

• Maintain and update web application based on Haskell, PostgreSQL, AngularJS
• Support development, manage releases, and track bug and QA progress
• Learn technologies and code-base in order to contribute to and enhance application
• Interface with university IT to coordinate around and maintain infrastructure
• Ensure system security and respect ethical concerns around sensitive data

Qualifications

• Solid history with Linux administration, build systems, and production application deployment
• Experience installing and using PostgreSQL, git, node, apache
• Basic understanding of HTTP, NFS, VMWare, docker
• Knowledge of various programming languages, ideally including JavaScript, shell, python, PL/SQL

Preferred

• Experience deploying Haskell applications using cabal
• History of contributions to open source projects
• Familiarity with ffmpeg, solr, gentoo, CentOS, CoffeeScript

To apply

Send the following to jobs@databrary.org:

• One page cover letter (PDF)
• Resume (PDF)
• Links to your open source contributions or other samples of your work

New York University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. New York University is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its hiring and promotion process without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy or childbirth (or related medical condition), sexual orientation, partnership status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital or parental status, national origin, ethnicity, alienage or citizenship status, veteran or military status, age, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, domestic violence victim status, unemployment status, or any other legally protected basis. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of minority sexual orientation or gender identity, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply for vacant positions at all levels.