🌠 Site Moderator#
The Fedihosting Foundation is looking for a new site-admin for Lemmy.World, to help our busy team. This moderator will help with reviewing and acting on reports, weighing in on user content, and helping foster our local communities while acting as a friendly neighbor to other fediverse instances.
Please note, this is a non-technical position.
You also MUST be over the age of 18 to apply to this position. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#user-responsibilities
You also DO NOT need to have an account on one of our FHF services but WILL have to create an account after joining. Users from other sites WELCOME!
Benefits:
- You’ll get to work with a great team of passionate kind, goofy individuals from all over the (lemmy) world!
- We have weekly virtual hangouts where we brainstorm new ideas and catch up with each other. Community for us is not just a buzzword.
- We can also provide work and personal references, as we are a registered legal non-profit.
- While not a technical role, you will also gain exposure to best-in-class industry tooling and processes for large-scale hosted applications (aka modern DevOps).
- We also run a small blog, that we’d love to have folks contribute to.
- Join in on the editorial voice for our featured communities.
- We also understand this is a hobby and that family and work come first
- If you’re having a hard time finding time or are busy, we will always do our best to help and support you.
Applicants should have the following qualities:
- Experience moderating a diverse group of individuals from many geographic, religious, and LGBTQ+ backgrounds.
- Able to commit to at least 5-10 hours a week.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication.
- Solid background in conflict resolution.
- Must be able to speak English.
- Works well asynchronously with remote teams.
- Grammar skills optional 😛
Bonus skills (which you will learn if you don’t already)
- SQL / Business Intelligence software skills.
- N8N workflow automation
- Web Design (Hugo + GitHub Pages).
- Python scripting
Application process:
- It goes without saying that we will only be considering applicants with a significant positive history of online posts and/or comments, no trolls, please.
- Applicants must be okay with sitting for a video interview and must pass a basic background check.
- While not strictly required, a CV with relevant work and volunteer history will help during the application process.
- We are an international team that works from both North America EST time (-4) and Europe CEST (+2), so we would ask that candidates be flexible with their availability.
📂 New Applicants
We are still looking for software developers, but our infra team is full right now. Please feel free to still apply, but we won’t be reviewing any new applicants until we have capacity. Thanks!
🖱 Software Developer#
We are looking for developers to help with our growing platform and infrastructure.
Volunteers will collaborate with other developers on our staff to both create new tooling/features and help improve existing ones.
We’re ideally looking for chill folks who want to give back to their community and work on both Lemmy Software itself (to contribute PRs) and to help with our internal tooling.
Must have 2+ years of experience working in software development.
Junior developers, feel free to apply 😄
While we are mainly a Python team, if you are familiar with Rust, that would be a great plus!
Please keep in mind that, while this is a volunteer gig, we would ask you to be able to commit to at least 5-10 hours a week. We also understand this is a hobby and that family and work come first.
Applicants must be okay with providing their CV AND sitting for a video interview.
We are an international team that works from both North America EST time (-4) and Europe CEST (+2) so we can be flexible with availability and async work!
💾 Junior Cloud Engineer#
You will learn a modern cloud infra stack, including Terraform, DataDog, CloudFlare and many others!
Volunteers will assist our existing systems team with monitoring, maintenance and automation development tasks. They will report to our head of infrastructure.
Please keep in mind that, while this is a volunteer gig, we would ask you to be able to commit to at least 5-10 hours a week. We also understand this is a hobby and that family and work come first.
Applicants must be okay with providing their CV, LinkedIn profile; along with sitting for a video interview.
We are an international team that works from both North America EST time (-4) and Europe CEST (+2) so we would ask that candidates be flexible with their availability.
💽 Senior Cloud Engineer#
Volunteers will assist our existing systems team with monitoring, maintenance and automation tasks. They will report to our head of infrastructure.
We’re ideally looking for chill folks who want to give back to their community and work on our back-end infrastructure.
Must have 4+ years of professional experience working in systems administration. We are not looking for junior admins at this time. Please keep in mind that, while this is a volunteer gig, we would ask you to be able to commit to at least 5-10 hours a week. We also understand this is a hobby and that family and work come first.
Applicants must be okay with providing their CV and/or LinkedIn profile AND sitting for a video interview. This is due to the sensitivity of the infrastructure you will have access to.
We are an international team that works from both North America EST time (-4) and Europe CEST (+2) so we would ask that candidates be flexible with their availability.
If you are in AEST (+10) or JST (+9) please let us know, as we are looking for at least one Sysadmin to help out during our overnight.
You will be asked to participate in an on-call pool. Please keep in mind that this is a round-robin style pool, so it’s alright if you’re busy as it will just move along the chain.