Wikimedia Foundation · 4 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$134K/yr - $208K/yr
5+ years expThe Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced and mission-driven Staff Software Engineer to join the Tools Platform team and provide senior technical leadership for Toolforge. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of software systems and workflows that tool developers depend on to build, deploy, operate, and sustain tools at scale.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Providing Staff-level technical leadership for the software and product experience layer of Toolforge
Designing and building the platform software and user-facing workflows used to create, deploy, debug, and maintain tools
Leading the redesign of Toolforge’s tool creation and maintenance UI
Defining and implementing golden paths for common workloads such as Bots, Web tools and Data-processing tools
Partnering closely with SREs to ensure platform software integrates cleanly with production infrastructure and operational practices
Acting as a technical multiplier for the team by mentoring engineers, raising engineering standards, and guiding architectural decisions
Qualification
Required
Extensive experience as a senior or Staff-level software engineer working on platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent systems
Strong architectural skills across APIs, backend services, and user-facing workflows
Experience designing and building developer platforms: build systems, deployment pipelines, lifecycle tooling, or similar
Ability to work effectively across roles—partnering with SREs, product, developer advocates, and volunteer contributors
Comfort operating in open, distributed, and asynchronous environments
Preferred
Experience contributing to or leading open-source projects
Familiarity with Toolforge, Wikimedia Cloud Services, or large-scale contributor platforms
A strong interest in improving developer experience and lowering barriers to entry for technical contributors
Company
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (1)
2024 (4)
2023 (5)
2022 (3)
2021 (1)
2020 (5)
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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