Wikimedia Foundation · 1 month ago
Senior Software Engineer, Wikimedia Enterprise
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$141K/yr - $176K/yrThe Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their team, responsible for developing and executing the long-term engineering strategy in collaboration with the product team. The role involves innovating and maintaining Wikipedia's data feeds while fostering cross-team collaboration and ensuring infrastructure reliability.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
Fluency in languages other than English
Company
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.
Founded in 2003
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (1)
2024 (4)
2023 (5)
2022 (3)
2021 (1)
2020 (5)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$158.98MKey Investors
Alfred P. Sloan FoundationCraig Newmark PhilanthropiesGoogle.org
2020-01-01Grant· $2.1M
2019-09-10Grant· $2.5M
2019-01-22Grant· $1.1M
Leadership Team
Maryana Iskander
Chief Executive Officer
Denny Vrandečić
Head of Special Projects
Recent News
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