Wikimedia Foundation · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$134K/yr - $208K/yrWikimedia Enterprise is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join their team, reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager. The role involves developing and executing the long-term engineering strategy, collaborating with the product team, and innovating Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Identifying and executing on opportunities that have area/group-wide impact
Proactively identifying and helping to refocus team's efforts when projects are off-course or not technically feasible and results aren’t moving the needle for our business/team goals
Designing scalable systems that work complementary to already existing ones and carve a path for easy migrations
Mentoring and supporting less experienced developers on technical and delivery challenges
Leading 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
Qualification
Required
Advanced technical expertise of modern software architectures
Being comfortable working in a semi-ambiguous environment, and able to navigate a complex ecosystem
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 IaC (Infrastructure as code): Terraform, ansible
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
Preferred
Able to introduce change into the organization, help others understand the business case for change, and create excitement to drive adoption of the change
Experience with non-cloud hosted infrastructure
Experience maintaining SLAs for customers
Startup experience is a plus
Experience working with companies and movements meant to better the world is appreciated
Remote work experience with a highly distributed team
Fluency in languages other than English
Experience with Wikimedia APIs, Mediawiki
Company
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.
Founded in 2003
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2022 (3)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$158.98MKey Investors
Alfred P. Sloan FoundationCraig Newmark PhilanthropiesGoogle.org
2020-01-01Grant· $2.1M
2019-09-10Grant· $2.5M
2019-01-22Grant· $1.1M
Leadership Team
Maryana Iskander
Chief Executive Officer
Denny Vrandečić
Head of Special Projects
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