Senior Engineering Manager

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation's Experiment Platform Team as Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team building a privacy-preserving experimentation platform. You will shape the platform's architecture and capabilities, collaborating with product analytics, SRE, and data engineering. Responsibilities include fostering a supportive team environment, managing team workstreams, coaching engineers, and making technical decisions. You will partner with the Product Manager to define technical requirements and prioritize platform capabilities, balancing feature delivery with quality and scalability. This is a fully remote position with some travel required.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, preferably working on data platforms or developer tools
• Strong technical background with ability to make architectural decisions and guide technical discussions
• Experience with distributed systems and scaled web applications
• Understanding of A/B testing methodologies and statistical concepts
• Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholder teams
• Commitment to open source values and collaborative development
• Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration
• Knowledge of observability tools and practices

Responsibilities

• Foster a supportive team environment, ensuring diverse voices are heard and team members feel empowered to lead
• Coordinate and lead key team rituals such as sprint and capacity planning, estimation and stand-ups to ensure smooth execution and alignment
• Manage team workstreams by tracking progress, resolving blockers, and managing cross-team dependencies
• Coach engineers in the art and science of software engineering and evolvable software architecture
• Guide team member career growths through structured development techniques and career growth
• Own technical decisions and working closely with the team to find best solutions to hard problems
• Partner with Product to help product teams adopt the platform and provide guidance on experimentation best practices
• Facilitate conversations about long-term technical strategy for the Experiment Platform
• Partner closely with the Product Manager to prioritize platform capabilities and define technical requirements
• Balance timely feature delivery with quality, reliability, and scalability requirements
• Be a strong voice, leader, and collaborator on team activities including code reviews culture, ceremonies, and work allocation
• Partner with peers on cross-team delivery and radiating organizational updates
• Collaborate with product analytics to ensure the platform supports meaningful experiment analysis

Preferred Qualifications

• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• Experience working on remote teams, especially globally distributed teams
• Familiarity with MediaWiki or similar content management systems
• Experience building or operating experimentation platforms
• Open source contribution experience
• Experience with privacy-preserving analytics techniques