Wikimedia Foundation · 3 hours ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$113K/yr - $176K/yr
5+ years expThe Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to manage and optimize systems for data-oriented teams, ensuring scalability and reliability while supporting users and mentoring peers.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Simplifying our operations by standardizing how we deploy services and how we benefit from virtualizing and containerizing our applications
Supporting our users, removing roadblocks, and making them more productive!
Monitoring of systems and services, optimization of performance, and resource utilization
Proactively identifying sources of instability in distributed systems and analyzing how complex systems fail from a reliability and resilience perspective
Automation and streamlining of tasks, as well as identifying process gaps
Collaborating with a global and asynchronously communicating team (don’t worry if you have never worked remotely, we’ll help you get used to it)
Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength
Expected to travel domestically or potentially internationally 2-3 times a year for team gatherings and conferences
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps or software engineering role
Experience with running applications and services at scale
Proficiency with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
Comfort with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform etc.)
Communicative technical English
Virtualization of data and compute
Share our values, appreciate our code of conduct, support our team norms, and work in accordance with all three
Customer-oriented. We're here to help, not to block
Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
Comfortable working in the open
Passionate about supporting our communities
Preferred
Experience with Kubernetes and Ceph
Experience with operating a data platform
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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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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