Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the MediaWiki Interfaces team. Reporting to the Director, MediaWiki Engineering, you will manage an engineering team and collaborate with the Product Manager on projects enhancing MediaWiki's extensibility. MediaWiki powers Wikipedia and its sister projects, serving hundreds of millions monthly. This role requires experience leading software engineering teams, managing backend platforms, and building diverse, remote-first teams. The position involves coaching engineers, ensuring timely deliverables, and collaborating with technical decision-makers. International travel is required up to 2-3 times per year, and working hours must overlap with UTC+2 to UTC-7.

Requirements

• Experience leading software engineering teams as a manager through various software development lifecycles
• Experience leading or managing a backend platform
• Experience building a diverse, multi-national and remote-first team
• Proven success at all stages of the engineering process and product lifecycle, leading to significant, measurable impact
• Ability to travel internationally up to 2-3 times a year
• Your working hours will need to overlap with UTC+2 to UTC-7 time zones to accommodate members of your team around the world

Responsibilities

• Coach engineers of varying levels, helping them grow and set personal development goals and mentoring them where applicable in software engineering best practices
• Ensure the timely shipping of deliverables by managing resources and schedules effectively
• Produce a steady stream of cadenced deliveries and plan for maintenance and migration work
• Communicate positively, effectively and proactively both within and outside of your team
• Effectively triage incoming bugs, incidents, and one-off requests
• Collaborate with other technical decision makers to identify long-term investment areas such as strategic migrations or adoption of new technologies
• Assess scope and difficulty of tasks, examine patches or alerts, and judge problem severity and solution complexity

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing organizational interaction with a community of volunteer technical contributors
• Experience contributing to or managing open source projects and communities, or experience with open governance (IETF, W3C, etc.)
• Familiarity with MediaWiki
• Experience working with (high-traffic) systems powered by large, monolithic code bases
• Experience working with internationally distributed teams or organizations

Benefits

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$ 147,423 to US$ 234,074 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