OpenReview Is — Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Open Review Is Growing — We’re Hiring a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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As Open Review continues to expand its reach and impact across the global research community, we’re excited to announce a new opportunity to join our team:
Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Remote).

Over the past decade, Open Review has become a cornerstone of modern scientific publishing, supporting the peer review workflows for thousands of venues — including nearly every flagship conference in artificial intelligence. With more than 2 million active monthly users and continuous year-over-year growth, we’re scaling our systems and our team to meet the demands of this vibrant community.

This new position reflects both our success and our commitment to excellence in reliability, security, and open infrastructure. Open Review runs lean, but we run strong — powered by a collaborative, mission-driven team that values innovation, transparency, and service to the research community. Joining Open Review means working closely with talented engineers and scientists who are passionate about building technology that makes science more open and fair.

If you’re excited by the idea of scaling infrastructure that directly supports the world’s leading AI conferences — and doing so in a supportive, purpose-driven environment — we’d love to hear from you.

Open Review is a mission-driven nonprofit that develops and deploys cutting-edge technology driving the peer review workflow for scientific conferences, workshops, and journals––including the majority of flagship venues in artificial intelligence such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, CVPR, ACL, TMLR, and many more.

Open Review’s broader mission is to revolutionize scientific communication by providing innovative and extensible mechanisms transforming peer review, assessment, mentorship, discussion, and discovery. Open Review has had a significant impact on open science, responsible use of AI in peer review, and fairness in scientific discourse.

Open Review was launched in 2013, and has nearly doubled in usage and impact every year. In 2025 we have over 2 million active monthly users, and will serve over 3000 scientific publishing venues. Our fully-remote 10-person team is collaborative, engaged, service-minded, and growing.

Open Review is seeking a versatile Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join us in a remote position to manage and optimize our cloud-based platform that serves the scientific research community. This remote, hybrid role combines cloud engineering, system administration, security, data engineering, and data analysis responsibilities. Candidates must be based in the United States and have valid authorization to work in the U.S.

Cloud Infrastructure Management

• Manage and optimize our Google Cloud Platform environment, including Compute Engine instances, Vertex AI services, nginx web servers, Mongo
  
  DB databases, Redis databases, and Elasticsearch clusters
• Implement, maintain, and analyze comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting systems across all services
• Optimize cloud resource utilization and costs to ensure efficient spending while maintaining performance standards
• Design and implement infrastructure as code practices for scalable and reproducible deployments
• Configure permissions using IAM

System Administration & Reliability

• Monitor and ensure platform performance and availability, especially during high-traffic conference submission periods (4-5 major conferences annually)
• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks before they impact users
• Maintain high availability and disaster recovery procedures
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with data protection requirements
• Design and execute data migration strategies to support evolving schema requirements
• Ensure data consistency and integrity across all database systems
• Develop automated data validation and quality assurance processes
• Create and maintain data backup and recovery procedures
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize database…