We're Hiring

Academia is looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to join our team!

Our ideal candidates are not only great at what they do, but they also make a meaningful impact on our mission. You should have experience working with the full stack of a web application. You are excited about and understand front end and robust app server architecture, and scalable backend design.

Bonus points for experience scaling an application to handle an increasing user base or having the ambition to put your scaling ideas into practice. Familiarity with our current tools is a plus, but it's much more important that you be a fast learner who can pick up new technologies quickly.

Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free.

* communications and messaging tools to facilitate collaboration and feedback

* an engaging and scalable peer review system to facilitate the identification & wide-scale distribution of high quality academic research

* A scalable newsfeed, highlighting the latest research in every field

* tools and platforms that enable academics to publish directly on the Academia social network

* advanced search products and personalized analytics

Your work will impact millions of scholars, making knowledge more accessible and fostering discussion among scholars.

In addition to finding great talent for our tight-knit team, we value fostering employee growth. Our >46-person team values curiosity, initiative, teamwork, and we are passionate about building great products. We have an employee-focused benefits program that includes top notch health, dental, and vision insurance, a generous time off policy (21-days paid vacation, 11 federal holidays, and unlimited sick days), stock options, catered lunch, a stocked kitchen, and a book stipend. We’re located near MUNI & BART in beautiful downtown San Francisco.

At Academia, we believe in strong computer science fundamentals. If you're unfamiliar with parts of our stack, that's not a problem as long as you're hungry to learn. We're more interested in your abilities as a software engineer. You will be given the opportunity to meet most of the engineers on our team, plus the CTO and the CEO. Conversations will range from personal interests, to your resume background. We want to understand your problem-solving skills and your ability to write structured, scalable, production level code. During the interview process, you'll be given a logic problem and you'll be asked to write code to solve the problem. We view this as a discussion, and we're more interested in the way you think rather than that you got the right answer.

Academia is building a new distribution and peer review platform for the world's academic research.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world.

Academia has built a network of Academics around the world who access our platform on the web and a native mobile app to discover new research, collaborate, recommend and peer review papers, and gather feedback on draft research by participating in real-time collaborative sessions.  Academia’s platform has registered more than 100 million users (growing at over 150,000 per day), has over 70 million unique visitors every month, including over 19M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 150,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to a doubling in revenue for both of the last two years.

Academia has attracted $34 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Academia is seeking an experienced Senior Front-End Engineer who is excited to use their deep understanding of web technologies to improve the academia.edu website. In this role, you'll use your mastery of Javascript, HTML and CSS to lead engineering efforts that focus on usability, re-usability, performance and accessibility. You'll work with a cross-functional team to launch new features and campaigns.

Academia is building a new Open Science distribution and peer review platform for Academic papers.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world. Academia has become the world's leading software platform for reading academic papers.

Academia has attracted $34 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

• Hands-on experience building, deploying, and scaling mobile applications.

• 2-5+ years of software engineering experience.

• Strong knowledge of web services architecture, and the ability to quickly learn new technologies.

Academia’s mission is to make every academic paper published available for free.

Academia is building a new distribution and peer review platform for academic research.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world.

Academia has built a network of Academics around the world who access our platform on the web and a native mobile app to discover new research, collaborate, recommend and peer review papers, and gather feedback on draft research by participating in real-time collaborative sessions.  Academia’s platform has registered more than 100 million users (growing at over 150,000 per day), has over 60 million unique visitors every month, including over 19M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 150,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to a doubling in revenue for both of the last two years.

Academia has attracted $34 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Academia is looking for an expert Senior Data Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be working closely with data scientists, other engineering teams, and business domain experts, to design and implement our Data Warehouse model. You will design, implement and scale data pipelines that transform billions of records into actionable data models that enable data insights.

You will lead initiatives to formalize data governance and management practices, rationalize our information lifecycle and key company metrics. You will provide mentorship and hands-on technical support to build trusted and reliable domain-specific datasets and metrics.

You will have deep technical skills, be comfortable contributing to a nascent data ecosystem, and building a strong data foundation for the company. You will be a self-starter, be detail and quality oriented, and be passionate about having a huge impact at Academia.

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, and 3+ years of experience working in data architecture and data modeling.

* 4-5+ years is preferred

* AWS Analytics stack or similar

* Experience building reliable production systems

* Ability to talk to and collect requirements from teams of data scientists

Academia is building a new Open Science distribution and peer review platform for Academic papers.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world. Academia has become the world's leading software platform for reading academic papers.

Academia has attracted $34 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The Role 

Academia is searching for a Director of Infrastructure Engineering with extensive experience working in both Operations and Product Engineering teams on service delivery in highly available, large-scale production environments.

In this role, you will be leading a global team of Operations Service Reliability Engineers who keep our production core infrastructure systems online, scalable, and out ahead of the business services that depend on them. You'll be responsible for developing an infrastructure services roadmap and leading your team through the execution of continuous service improvement initiatives.

In your role as Director of Infrastructure Engineering, you will:

• Report to the CTO.

• Strategically drive our evolving Operations production design and service architecture, developing reliable and scalable infrastructure with proper monitoring, alerting, documentation, and capacity planning.

• Manage the international 24x7 multi-site infrastructure that powers Academia's production services.

• Develop the leaders of tomorrow by training and mentoring our global staff of Operations personnel.

• Manage the team's service coverage strategies and on-call rotations.

• Manage a global team of Service Reliability Engineers supporting our production infrastructure and the many mission-critical business services that depend on it.

• Work with other technical leaders in Operations to define and implement process and technical standards that improve performance, stability, and standardization across environments.

• Understand large-scale/distributed product architectures and the production ecosystem in which they live in order to develop capacity plans, SLA metrics and standards, plan product launches and releases, and solve operability challenges.

• Own the uptime, reliability, scalability, resiliency, recoverability, and security of our Core Infrastructure platforms.

• Own the shared compute and storage infrastructure, what we use, where we use it, how much it costs, and how we can constantly improve it.

• Create comprehensive and strategic plans to solve technical, process, and staffing challenges. Relentlessly drive those plans forward to achieve business success.

• Develop the technical and soft skills of your team members through projects and goal setting.

• Participate as part of the broader Operations leadership team to develop the organizations skills as a whole. Assess employee performance frequently; address underperformance, and recognize and promote the strongest.

• Work closely with our global recruiting staff to expand and strengthen the team, including sourcing and interviewing candidates, participating in conferences/events, and on-boarding new hires.

• 8+ years of direct management of technical staff in a large-scale Unix-based production environment

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a member of a technical team responsible for a production environment

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and executive presence.

• Hands-on experience managing a large distributed computing environment and associated configuration management solutions (Puppet, Nagios, Chef, Juju, etc.).

• Extensive knowledge of Public and Private Cloud infrastructure and modern virtualization technologies (AWS, GCP, VMware, OpenStack, etc.).

• Experience with industry-standard operational practices such as change management, incident management, and working in colocation data centers.

• Previous responsibility for hiring and performance management decisions, including managing super stars and under-performers.

• Solid understanding of developer tools and concepts like Agile, continuous integration, version control, test-driven deployment

• BS or MIS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

At Academia, we have a passion for protecting people, data, and brands from todays advanced threats and compliance risks. We hire the best people in the business to:

• Build and enhance our proven security platform

• Blend innovation and speed in a constantly evolving cloud architecture

• Analyze new threats and offer deep insight through data-driven intel

• Collaborate with customers to help solve their toughest security challenges We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect what matters most.

Academia is building a new Open Science distribution and peer review platform for the world’s Academic papers.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world. Academia has become the world's leading software platform for reading academic papers.

 

Academia has built a network of Academics around the world who access our platform on the web and a native mobile app to discover new research, collaborate, recommend and peer review papers, and gather feedback on draft research by participating in real-time collaborative sessions.  Academia’s platform has registered more than 100 million users (growing on average at over 150,000 per day), and has over 70 million unique visitors every month, including over 19M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 150,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to a doubling in revenue for both of the last two years.

Academia is building a new distribution and peer review platform for academic research.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world.

Academia has built a network of Academics around the world who access our platform on the web and a native mobile app to discover new research, collaborate, recommend and peer review papers, and gather feedback on draft research by participating in real-time collaborative sessions.  Academia’s platform has registered more than 90 million users (growing at over 150,000 per day), has over 70 million unique visitors every month, including over 12.5M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 100,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to a doubling in revenue for both of the last two years.

Academia has attracted $34 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

* Mentor designers in the areas of design strategy, UX, and visual design.

Academia is building a new distribution and peer review platform for academic research.  Guided by a mission to accelerate the world’s research, Academia aims to make every academic paper ever published available for free online and accessible by anyone in the world.

Academia has built a network of Academics around the world who access our platform on the web and a native mobile app to discover new research, collaborate, recommend and peer review papers, and gather feedback on draft research by participating in real-time collaborative sessions.  Academia’s platform has registered more than 100 million users (growing at over 150,000 per day), has over 70 million unique visitors every month, including over 12.5M logged-in monthly active users (MAU). We have over 100,000 paying premium subscribers, which has contributed to a doubling in revenue for both of the last two years.

Academia has attracted $34 million in investment from leading VC firms including Khosla Ventures, True Ventures, Spark Capital, and Tencent. Our work has garnered favorable attention from trade and mainstream media including UK Times, Fortune, Wired, EdTech, Venture Beat, San Francisco Business Times, The Economist, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, Scientific American, and Forbes.

Academia is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to hiring and supporting a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.