Senior Software Engineer

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager. As the Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for developing and executing on the long-term engineering strategy in collaboration with the product team. You will contribute heavily to the high impact challenges behind innovating building and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. In this role you will foster cross team collaboration where necessary to address business goals keep the team moving quickly by designing and implementing necessary tools and services and guide the team on best practices for software engineering and infrastructure reliability.

Wikimedia Enterprise is a new revenue-generating product that provides fast comprehensive reliable and secure data ingestion for organizations that wish to repurpose Wikimedia/Wikipedia content in third party environments. Wikimedia Enterprise aims to improve the user experience for Wikimedia/Wikipedia readers beyond our own websites; increase the reach and discoverability of Wikimedia/Wikipedia content; and improve awareness and ease of attribution and verifiability of Wikimedia/Wikipedia content by the organizations that reuse our content the most. You can learn more about the project in WIRED and Insider .

We are a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore experiment and embrace  technologies. We act sort of like a startup within the Wikimedia Foundation: we build quickly deploy often and our work has a very high impact on the global knowledge ecosystem. If you are up to the challenge of working on something fast paced of creating services that will revolutionize the systems distributing our knowledge for billions of people across the world and enjoy the idea of working with a globally distributed team you might be just the person we need.

You are responsible for:

• Bringing your creativity to improve our current infrastructure

• Being a key part of planning our future technical roadmap

• Maintaining and improving the reliability of highly used commercial data feeds

• Supporting new code/feature deployments

• Troubleshooting debugging and following-up on emerging issues in our application stack and its surroundings

• Assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale

• Incident response diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia Enterprise’s production infrastructure

• Sharing our values and work in accordance with them

Skills and Experience:

• Being comfortable working in a semi-ambiguous environment similar to that of a startup

• Experience in supporting complex web applications running on Amazon Web Services or other comparable cloud platforms

• Experience working with Kafka or similar distributed event processing systems

• Experience working with Nodejs and Go applications

• Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS Kubernetes) and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring metrics and logging)

• Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks

• Comfortable with shell and scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (e.g. Python Go Bash Ruby etc.)

• Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills

• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently as an effective part of a globally distributed team

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent in related work experience

Qualities that are important to us:

• Track record of open source contributions is highly appreciated

• Experience with non-cloud hosted infrastructure

• Startup experience is a plus

• Remote work experience with a highly distributed team

Additionally we’d love it if you have:

• Fluency in languages other than English

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects build software experiences for reading contributing and sharing Wikimedia content support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco California USA.

As an equal opportunity employer the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race traits historically associated with race religion color national origin sex pregnancy or related medical conditions parental status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability genetic information or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries * . Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive equitable and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$141352 to US$175725 with multiple individualized factors including cost of living in the location being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills experience and location.

*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia Austria Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Canada Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Egypt Estonia Finland France Germany Ghana Greece India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Kenya Mexico Netherlands Nigeria Peru Poland Singapore South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Uganda United Kingdom United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).

We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.

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