https://blog.readthedocs.com 2023-07-08T10:50:30.260353+00:00 ABlog https://blog.readthedocs.com/read-the-docs-is-hiring/ 2015-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 Eric Holscher <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><p>Community Developer</p></li> <li><p>Operations Developer</p></li> </ul> <p>These will be part-time remote contract positions.</p> <p>Our budget is:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>40 total hours each week</p></li> <li><p>Paid at $50/hr</p></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> <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><p>Triage and fix bugs as they come in via GitHub, IRC, and the Mailing List</p></li> <li><p>Work through the back log of GitHub Issues, fixing and closing them</p></li> <li><p>Doing ongoing maintenance of the code base, including upgrading Django versions, refactoring, and other technical debt clean up</p></li> <li><p>Work onboarding developers into the code base</p></li> </ul> <p>Tech Used:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>Linux (Ubuntu)</p></li> <li><p>Nginx</p></li> <li><p>Django</p></li> <li><p>Python</p></li> <li><p>Celery</p></li> <li><p>Sphinx &amp; Docutils</p></li> <li><p>GitHub</p></li> </ul> <p>It’s fine if you aren’t familiar with all of these things, but are willing to learn!</p> </section> <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><p>Manage backups of our databases</p></li> <li><p>Manage usage of our web and build machines, keeping them up to date and within capacity</p></li> <li><p>Build new infrastructure and help us scale the existing machines</p></li> <li><p>Write code to make Read the Docs easier to scale and sustain</p></li> <li><p>Be included in an On Call rotation</p></li> </ul> <p>Tech Used:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>Salt</p></li> <li><p>Postgres</p></li> <li><p>Munin</p></li> <li><p>Nagios</p></li> <li><p>Nginx</p></li> <li><p>Elastic Search</p></li> <li><p>Django</p></li> <li><p>Celery</p></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> </section> <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> </section> </section>

Thanks to our successful fundraiser, we have the ability to pay people to work on Read the Docs.We have two positions that we are looking for:

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