Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the technical roadmap and manage a team of engineers to develop and maintain Wikimedia Enterprise, focusing on enhancing data feeds for high volume reusers and supporting the financial sustainability of the Wikimedia movement.
Responsibilities
- Fostering a supportive team environment, ensuring diverse voices are heard and team members feel empowered to lead
- Guiding team members with structured development techniques
- Coaching engineers in the art and science of software engineering and evolvable software architecture
- Owning technical decisions and working closely with team to find best solutions to hard problems
- Leading conversations about long term technical strategy of the Wikimedia Enterprise team, with understanding of the principles of the movement
- Being a strong voice, leader, and collaborator on team activities including code reviews, ceremonies, and work allocation
- Participating in hiring considerate of diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Partnering with peers on cross-team delivery and radiating organizational updates
- Facilitating product technical strategy and roadmap setting with software engineers and technical product management
- Supervising budget and staffing
Skills
- Expertise in B2B environments that require high and unpredictable scale
- History of developing high productivity engineering teams working on challenging problems
- Expertise managing teams with tight SLAs behind their work
- 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 Node.js, Go and PHP applications
- Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes) and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
- BS/MS/Ph.D in Computer Science or other relevant technical field or the equivalent in work experience
- A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
- Ability to communicate clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels
- Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
- Experience with service based and streaming architectures
Benefits
- The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations.
- If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.
- More information [U.S. Benefits & Perks](https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/#section-12)
- The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries.
- Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture.
- The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
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