Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Senior Software Engineer to develop and execute on the long-term engineering strategy, contribute to innovating, building, and maintaining Wikipedia's data feeds, and foster cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

• Being comfortable working in a semi-ambiguous environment, and collaborate across teams
• Experience in supporting complex web applications running on Amazon Web Services or other comparable cloud platforms
• Experience working with Kafka or similar distributed event processing systems
• Experience working with Nodejs and Go applications
• Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes), and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
• Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks
• Comfortable with shell and scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (e.g. Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent in related work experience

Responsibilities

• Bringing your creativity to improve our current infrastructure
• Being a key part of planning our future technical roadmap
• Maintaining and improving the reliability of highly used commercial data feeds
• Supporting new code/feature deployments
• Troubleshooting, debugging and following-up on emerging issues in our application stack and its surroundings
• Assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale
• Incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia Enterprise’s production infrastructure
• Sharing our values and work in accordance with them
• Monitoring system performance to make data-driven decisions
• Writing and maintaining comprehensive documentation
• Staying up to date on emerging technologies and best practices to improve technology
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate to increase efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Track record of open source contributions is highly appreciated
• Experience with non-cloud hosted infrastructure
• Remote work experience with a highly distributed team

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours