Engineering Manager, Security and Privacy

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as an Engineering Manager to lead the security and privacy engineering group. You will manage a team of engineers responsible for strengthening the security and privacy of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. This leadership role involves close collaboration with the Group Product Manager to define and implement the team's roadmap. The position is crucial for protecting the Foundation's people, projects, and infrastructure from threats. You will advise on security best practices and contribute to the overall security and safety roadmap. The role also includes hiring, developing, and leading a high-performing engineering team.

Requirements

• Experience managing engineers and engineering teams responsible for infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing tools
• Strong technical background with experience in systems engineering, cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, OpenStack, etc.), and developer platform architecture
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and product-oriented development in open communities or large-scale developer ecosystems
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, especially in distributed and asynchronous environments
• Ability to travel 2-3 times a year

Responsibilities

• Leading a group of security engineers and privacy engineers in protecting the Wikimedia Foundation’s people, project integrity, infrastructure and other assets against threats
• Advising product management across the Foundation on security best practices and security implications of various product decisions
• Helping to establish the Wikimedia Foundation’s overall security and safety roadmap, and ensuring delivery against its technical and organizational goals
• Collaborating with Product & Engineering teams, Legal, ITS and other departments
• Setting direction, unblocking work, and ensuring delivery against technical and organizational goals
• Establishing and leading the execution of group processes, including sprint planning, security releases and deployments, security incident response
• Hiring and developing a high-performing, inclusive engineering group that builds and owns security-critical software and operates from a shared sense of mission

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing engineering teams with a focus on security
• Experience contributing to or leading in open-source projects
• Familiarity with Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects
• A passion for building inclusive platforms that lower barriers to entry and empower a diverse set of contributors