Engineering Manager, Security and Privacy

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as an Engineering Manager to lead the security and privacy engineering group. This leadership role involves managing a team of engineers, working closely with product management, and advising on security best practices. You will be responsible for establishing and executing group processes, including sprint planning and incident response. The ideal candidate has experience managing engineering teams focused on security, a strong technical background, and excellent communication skills. The position requires the ability to travel 2-3 times a year and is open to candidates in specific time zones. The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization.

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