Read the Docs Blog - Posts tagged jobhttps://blog.readthedocs.com/archive/tag/job/atom.xml2015-05-04T00:00:00ZABlogRead the Docs is hiring!https://blog.readthedocs.com/read-the-docs-is-hiring/2015-05-04T00:00:00Z2015-05-04T00:00:00ZEric Holscher<div class="section" id="read-the-docs-is-hiring">
<p>Thanks to our successful <a class="reference external" href="http://blog.readthedocs.com/fundraising-wrapup/">fundraiser</a>,
we have the ability to pay people to work on Read the Docs.</p>
<p>We have two positions that we are looking for:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Community Developer</li>
<li>Operations Developer</li>
</ul>
<p>These will be part-time remote contract positions.</p>
<p>Our budget is:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>40 total hours each week</li>
<li>Paid at $50/hr</li>
</ul>
<p>These hours will be split between the two roles,
and our time managing and doing administrative tasks.
We expect each person to work around 15-20 hours each week.
It will initially be for a 3-month period,
after which we will evaluate the program,
and continue it with renewed funding if it is successful.</p>
<p>We understand that money and time can be an obstacle to working on OSS,
so let this be your opportunity to join us!
We are hoping to build a team that is diverse in view points and location,
and that definitely includes folks like you.
Historically under-represented folks in the open source world will be given preference.</p>
<div class="section" id="community-developer">
<h2>Community Developer</h2>
<p>You will help us build community and give our users a better experience.
Help us make the code base better,
and build a thriving open source project along the way.</p>
<p>Your jobs will be:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Triage and fix bugs as they come in via GitHub, IRC, and the Mailing List</li>
<li>Work through the back log of GitHub Issues, fixing and closing them</li>
<li>Doing ongoing maintenance of the code base, including upgrading Django versions, refactoring, and other technical debt clean up</li>
<li>Work onboarding developers into the code base</li>
</ul>
<p>Tech Used:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Linux (Ubuntu)</li>
<li>Nginx</li>
<li>Django</li>
<li>Python</li>
<li>Celery</li>
<li>Sphinx & Docutils</li>
<li>GitHub</li>
</ul>
<p>It’s fine if you aren’t familiar with all of these things, but are willing to learn!</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="operations-developer">
<h2>Operations Developer</h2>
<p>You will help us operate the largest open source documentation website in the world.
We currently get over 15,000,000 pageviews a month,
and we hope to maintain a reliable and stable hosting platform for years to come.</p>
<p>Your responsibilities will be:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Manage backups of our databases</li>
<li>Manage usage of our web and build machines, keeping them up to date and within capacity</li>
<li>Build new infrastructure and help us scale the existing machines</li>
<li>Write code to make Read the Docs easier to scale and sustain</li>
<li>Be included in an On Call rotation</li>
</ul>
<p>Tech Used:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Salt</li>
<li>Postgres</li>
<li>Munin</li>
<li>Nagios</li>
<li>Nginx</li>
<li>Elastic Search</li>
<li>Django</li>
<li>Celery</li>
</ul>
<p>It’s fine if you aren’t familiar with all of these things, but are willing to learn!</p>
<p><strong>We will prefer candidates in non-US based time zones to simplify our on call rotation.</strong>
Nobody should have to wake up at night to fix issues!</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="how-to-apply">
<h2>How to Apply</h2>
<p>Thanks for everyone who has applied. We are in the process of choosing a candidate, and applications are now closed.</p>
</div>
</div>