arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud

Summary

Careers at arXiv arXiv is part of Cornell Tech, the graduate campus and research center of Cornell University. All arXiv employees are Cornell University employees. Software development We are already underway on the arXiv CE ("Cloud Edition") project. This is a project to re-home all arXiv services from VMs at Cornell to a cloud provider (Google Cloud). There are a number of reasons for this transition, including improving arXiv's scalability while modernizing our infrastructure. This will not be a simple port of the existing arXiv code base because this project will: replace the portion of our backends still written in perl and PHP re-architect our article processing to be fully asynchronous, and provide better insight into the processing workflows containerize all, or nearly all arXiv services so we can deploy via Kubernetes or services like Google Cloud Run improve our monitoring and logging facilities so we can more quickly identify and manage production issues with arxiv.org create a robust CI/CD pipeline to give us more confidence that changes we deploy will not cause services to regress The cloud transition is a pre-requisite to modernizing arXiv as a service. The modernization will enable: - arXiv to expand the subject areas that we cover - improve the metadata we collect and make available for articles, adding fields that the research community has requested such as funder identification - deal with the problem of ambiguous author identities - improve accessibility to support users with impairments, particularly visual impairments - improve usability for the entire arXiv community We have three SWE openings, one general and two specialized Software Engineer This person should be a software generalist, who can work in a variety of environments, programming languages, frontend and backend. Should have web development and SQL experience. DevOps Specialist We are looking for a developer with Cloud DevOps experience to lead the effort of modernizing our devops ...