Part-Time Data Ingest Engineer (contractor)

Digital Public Library of America • Boston, MA

5d • $75 - $150 • Remote

About The Position

DPLA is looking for a part-time contractor to coordinate and maintain metadata ingest operations. This position is directly involved in maintaining DPLA’s ingestion process of harvesting, mapping, enriching, and indexing metadata from contributing partners.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with Spark/Scala pipelines and AWS (EC2, EMR, S3)
• Familiarity with cultural heritage metadata standards (RDF, JSON-LD, Dublin Core, MODS, or similar) and DAMS (CONTENTdm, etc.)
• Experience working across metadata quality, pipeline ops, and infrastructure
• Familiarity with GitHub-based collaborative workflows
• Self-directed
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship

Responsibilities

• Running monthly ingest cycles across active partner contributions (harvesting, mapping, enrichment, indexing)
• Coordinating with DPLA staff on metadata mapping and delivery
• Monitoring pipeline reliability and addressing bottlenecks or single points of failure
• Troubleshooting ingestion errors and coordinating resolution with DPLA staff
• Supporting deployments and maintaining CI/CD pipeline health
• Providing regular status updates to DPLA staff

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees