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Author: gus <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Feb 5 09:39:09 2021 -0500
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+_model: job
+---
+_template: about.html
+---
+section: about
+---
+section_id: about
+---
+active: True
+---
+title: Metrics Data Architect
+---
+color: primary
+---
+summary:
+
+Internet Freedom Nonprofit Seeks Metrics Data Architect
+
+The Tor Project, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization advancing human
rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity
and privacy technologies, is seeking an experienced Data Architect to take our
metrics work to the next level.
+
+Tor is for everyone, and we are actively working to build a team that
represents people from all over the world â people from diverse ethnic,
national, and cultural backgrounds; people from all walks of life. Racial
minorities, non-gender-binary people, women, and people from any group that is
generally underrepresented in tech are encouraged to apply.
+
+This is a full-time remote position.
+---
+description:
+
+## Internet Freedom Nonprofit Seeks Metrics Data Architect
+
+*February 4, 2021*
+
+The Tor Project, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization advancing human
rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity
and privacy technologies, is seeking an experienced Data Architect to take our
metrics work to the next level.
+
+Tor is for everyone, and we are actively working to build a team that
represents people from all over the world â people from diverse ethnic,
national, and cultural backgrounds; people from all walks of life. Racial
minorities, non-gender-binary people, women, and people from any group that is
generally underrepresented in tech are encouraged to apply.
+
+This is a full-time remote position.
+
+### The team
+
+Historically our Metrics Team has been collecting data since 2004 to help
improve the tools we build and learn more about the Tor network. For example,
we monitor the number of relays and clients in the network, their respective
capabilities, the number of clients connecting via bridges, fluctuations in
network speed, etc. Gathering this data results in huge data archives, so we
are also working to develop tools to process this data and make it available to
everyone.
+
+How we achieve our goals:
+ * Robustness (We want to avoid bugs and/or bad design decisions that cause us
to miss data)
+ * Timeliness (users need up-to-date network status information)
+ * Scalability (as the network grows, so does our data)
+ * Transparency (our community rightly wants to know what data we're
collecting)
+
+The most interesting challenge for metrics collection at Tor is how to gather
data on an anonymity system without de-anonymizing users.
+
+We are integrating the metrics team with a new network health team that will
be also focusing on taking care of the health of the Tor network. Additionally,
Tor has just begin a large network performance improvement project that will
vastly increase network utilization and client performance. There will be close
interaction between this role and our performance effort, in the form of
ensuring data is collected properly during deployment of new performance
features and performance tuning. This will also include producing custom
visualizations, doing analysis, and comparisons between historical and current
data.
+
+### The job
+
+The person in this position will work directly with helping us maintain
existing systems, and design new systems for gathering and analyzing data. They
will help the rest of the teams understand the data available to improve our
tools as well as the Tor network's health.
+
+The bulk of our code is written in Java, but smaller portions are written in
R, Python, PostgreSQL, and JavaScript. Part of this job will be to analyze and
fix bugs in our current code and review patches.
+
+You will be working with the existing teams in Tor with support and advice on
data collection and measurements for their needs in their respective projects.
+
+Our main five codebases:
+
+ - [Collector](https://gitweb.torproject.org/collector.git/)
+ - [metrics-lib](https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-lib.git/)
+ - [Onionoo](https://gitweb.torproject.org/onionoo.git/)
+ - [Exonerator](https://gitweb.torproject.org/exonerator.git/)
+ - [metrics-web](https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-web.git/)
+
+### Requirements
+
+Technical abilities/experience:
+
+ - Have experience finding your way into existing Java, R, and
PostgreSQL-based code bases and the ability to review patches and make changes
to fix bugs/smaller enhancements.
+ - Have experience with web application development in the Python programming
language. Experience with known frameworks is a plus.
+ - Able to identify shortcomings in our data pipeline and suggest improvements
to reduce complexity and future maintenance efforts.
+ - Experience working with Git and Gitlab or similar issue tracking tools.
+ - Ability to learn quickly and can adapt to our current processes; being able
to improve future processes for releasing software and operating services.
+ - Understanding of the inherent privacy implications of gathering data in an
anonymity system, the security implications of gathering metrics data from
semi-trusted relays in the Tor network, and the challenges of processing large
amounts of data per day (specifically performance and scalability challenges).
+ - Data analysis: Ability to make sense of data sets and use data analysis
tools to find and visualize interesting patterns.
+ - Mathematics: Knowledge of basic statistics.
+
+Collaborative requirements:
+
+ - Ability to work remotely 100% of the time, as synchronization happens via
email and/or IRC.
+ - Participation in weekly IRC meetings and monthly team video chats.
+ - Language: write and speak fluent English.
+ - Comfortable posting to a public mailing list or speaking up in a public IRC
channel to ask questions, even when you think the question might be obvious or
silly.
+
+Bonus skills:
+
+ - Open source experience: You have contributed to an open source project
before, and you're accustomed to a pattern of early and frequent releases
without attempting to finalize things on your own.
+ - Scientific writing: Experience writing technical reports about data
findings.
+ - Networking background: Experience working with networks and measurements in
the past.
+ - You support Internet Freedom!
+
+To apply, submit a cover letter, your CV/resume (including three professional
references), and a link to a code sample or some non-trivial software project
you have significantly contributed to. In your cover letter, please include the
reason you want to work at the Tor Project.
+
+**IMPORTANT:** Please email application materials in plain text or PDF format
to **job-metrics at torproject dot org** with âMetrics Data Architectâ in
the subject line.
+
+The Tor Project's workforce is smart, committed, and hard working. We
currently have a paid and contract staff of around 24 developers and
operational support people, plus many thousands of volunteers who contribute to
our work. The Tor Project is funded in part by government research and
development grants, and in part by individual, foundation, and corporate
donations.
+
+Salary for this position depends on experience and there is voluntary opt-in
salary transparency for employees and contractors.
+
+The Tor Project has a competitive benefits package, including a generous PTO
policy, 16 paid holidays per year (including the week between Christmas and New
Year's, when the office is closed), and flexible work schedule. Insurance
benefits vary by employment status and country of residence.
+
+The Tor Project, Inc., is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.
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