Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Engineering to build, maintain and operate data infrastructure for fundraising program.

Requirements

• At least two years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team
• Experience supporting high availability distributed production systems
• Experience with database administration and support
• Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, etc.), and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
• Comfortable with shell and scripting languages such as Python, Go, Bash, Ruby
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• BS or MS degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience

Responsibilities

• The Deployment, configuration and maintenance of the distributed data systems that comprise our data and analytics platform
• Implement data quality monitoring that alerts the team of possible data issues
• Close collaboration with the rest of Fundraising to integrate and use data from across all of our self-hosted and third-party data sources
• Provide an increased level of engineering support during particularly high-traffic or critical campaigns
• Write, use, and update internal documentation of systems and processes
• Provide expertise and ensure compliance with applicable regulations, policies, and standards such as our Donor Privacy Policy, GDPR, and PCI DSS
• Create and manage users and permissions to ensure data access control
• Advise internal staff on best practices for data input, manage streamlining of manual uploads, and as needed develop processes to ensure consistency of data entry

Benefits

Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture