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Now Hiring – Full-Time W-2 Employees

We are currently hiring for two full-time, W-2 employee positions.

PLEASE NOTE: These roles are NOT open to independent contractors, 1099/C2C arrangements, staffing agencies, consulting firms, or offshore/remote contractors. Applicants must be eligible to work in the U.S. as a W-2 employee. Sponsorship is not available.
Location & Work Style
Onsite Preferred—candidates willing to work onsite will receive first consideration.
Hybrid or Remote may be considered for the right candidate with outstanding qualifications and fit.
About Us

We're a small, dedicated internet services and data center team based in Taos, NM. We value reliable, self-motivated tech professionals who enjoy solving real-world problems and supporting critical infrastructure and software systems.
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Who You Are
  • Skilled in systems administration, web infrastructure, or software engineering (depending on the role)
  • Excellent communicator and team player
  • Comfortable working independently and collaboratively
  • Committed to quality service and continuous learning
Perks & Benefits
  • Competitive pay
  • Health, dental, and retirement benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Seasonal perks (e.g., ski passes and flexible time for outdoor activities)
  • Professional growth opportunities
How to Apply

Submit your resume and cover letter detailing:

  • Which role you are applying for
  • Your eligibility as a W-2 employee
  • Your onsite or remote preference

Email your application to jobs@brownrice.com.

No phone inquiries. No third-party recruiters or agencies. Candidates submitted through staffing firms will not be considered.

Apply Now

Open Positions

Web Hosting Support Technician

Brownrice Internet is looking for a friendly, detail-oriented Support Tech with web development experience, Linux server experience, and superior communication skills (both written and verbal), who is capable of working in a team environment and enjoys helping people solve technical problems.

COMPENSATION: Competitive hourly pay depending on skills and experience plus health benefits, paid vacation, and retirement plan.

The Ideal Candidate Would Have:

  • Superior verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience building websites with HTML and Javascript via FTP, SCP, and SSH.
  • Experience with Linux, web servers, and open source databases.
  • Experience in a technical support capacity specifically related to hosting.
  • Experience with website building using CMSs (WordPress, Joomla, Expression Engine, etc.)

Typical Duties Might Include:

  • First-line tech support for our hosting clients: Email configuration, hosting set-up, and general troubleshooting via phone and email.
  • Debugging customer issues with email programs, website building, and billing.
  • Configuration and debugging webcam hosting.
  • Identifying network and server bottlenecks and troubleshooting, optimizing, and reporting.
  • Building servers in our on-site data center.
  • Running network cables and building racks in our on-site data center.

Preferred Experience (1 year each)

  • Linux
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • Web services
  • MySQL

NOTE: This is a full-time, employee position. Contractors need not apply.

Job Details

JOB TYPE: Full-time

WORK LOCATION: In person

Benefits

  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

How to Apply

Submit your resume and cover letter detailing:

  • Which role you are applying for
  • Your eligibility as a W-2 employee
  • Your onsite or remote preference

Email your application to jobs@brownrice.com. No phone inquiries. No third-party recruiters or agencies. Candidates submitted through staffing firms will not be considered.

Apply Now

Web Software Engineer

Brownrice is looking for a friendly, detail-oriented, experienced web software developer with superior communication skills - both written and verbal - who is capable of working in a team environment, on our in-house projects as well as our contract projects, and enjoys helping people solve technical problems and building great applications.

COMPENSATION: Competitive hourly pay depending on skills and experience plus 100% paid health benefits (including vision and dental), paid vacation, and retirement plan.

The Ideal Candidate Would Have All of This Experience:

  • 3+ years commercial PHP and MySQL development experience in a group environment.
  • 3+ years commercial HTML, CSS, and JavaScript programming experience in a group environment.
  • 2+ years commercial REST API development.
  • 1+ years commercial experience with Bootstrap, jQuery, Vue, Capistrano, Node.js, Ractive and npm.
  • Experience with Git in a group development environment, Git lab, etc.
  • Experience working in AWS services: EC2, S3, Elastic Load Balancing, etc.

The Ideal Candidate Would Also Have Some Experience With These Technologies:

  • Commercial experience administering Linux servers.
  • Apache configuration, performance tuning, and debugging in a Linux environment.
  • MySQL/MariaDB configuration, performance tuning, and debugging in a Linux environment.
  • Docker experience; configuration, maintenance, and support.
  • Experience in a technical support capacity specifically related to hosting.
  • Experience with web site building using CMSs (WordPress, Joomla, Expression Engine, etc.)
  • Real-world Linux security experience in a hosting environment with ability to manage servers and applications through PCI compliance processes, diagnose hacks (CMS exploits, SQL/XSS injection, etc) and provide customer-level remedies.

Typical Duties Might Include:

  • Providing time estimates and writing technical specifications for new projects, bug fixes, and enhancements.
  • Writing code, testing code, optimizing code, and deploying code to development, staging, and live environments via Git and Capistrano
  • Identifying application and server bottlenecks, troubleshooting, optimizing, reporting, and fixing.
  • Migrating LAMP stack web sites, API's, and applications, from server to server or cluster to cluster
  • Reporting to end-users, Project Managers, Programmers and other Systems Administrators on statuses of projects via Jira and other tools.

NOTE: This is a full-time, employee position. Contractors need not apply. Preference will be given to applicants in Northern New Mexico, or those planning on moving to Northern New Mexico (Taos, Santa Fe, Albuquerque).

Job Details

JOB TYPE: Full-time

WORK LOCATION: In person

Benefits

  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance

Education

High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience

  • JavaScript: 1 year (Preferred)
  • PHP / MySQL: 3 years (Required)
  • HTML / CSS: 3 years (Preferred)
  • REST API: 1 year (Preferred)
  • Bootstrap: 1 year (Preferred)
  • Vue: 1 year (Preferred)
  • Capistrano: 1 year (Preferred)
  • Node.js: 1 year (Preferred)
  • npm: 1 year (Preferred)

How to Apply

Submit your resume and cover letter detailing:

  • Which role you are applying for
  • Your eligibility as a W-2 employee
  • Your onsite or remote preference

Email your application to jobs@brownrice.com. No phone inquiries. No third-party recruiters or agencies. Candidates submitted through staffing firms will not be considered.

Apply Now

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Our listeners count on our online systems for our six local radio stations. Believe me, they let us know when there is a problem! Since moving to Brown Rice, that phone doesn't ring anymore with complaints about speeds or quality. We can always count on the Brownrice!

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We have relied on Brownrice for over 15 years to be the tech brawn behind the scenes that keeps our website design and development projects running smoothly and affordably. You can’t beat the superior service they provide, especially when a human answers the phone!

Molly Duncan
President, Creative Director
Desert Elements Design

Colocating equipment in a datacenter is an exercise of trust. The team at Brownrice Internet is a genuinely great group of people who continue to earn my trust year after year, going above and beyond time after time. They are genuinely great to work with.

Daniel Robbins
Funtoo Linux

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We host 100’s of our client websites with Brown Rice and have high expectations for service, security and backups. Brown Rice's accountable, always-helpful specialists have consistently supplied reliable, upbeat support to my team and myself when we need it. We couldn’t be happier.

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