The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Software Engineer to join the MediaWiki Interfaces team to improve the performance, reliability, and responsible adoption of their APIs, which power Wikipedia and its sister projects, impacting hundreds of millions of users globally.
Requirements
- Proficiency in PHP and JavaScript, or a willingness to learn and work with both;
- Understanding of HTTP and web application architecture;
- Familiarity with observability and testing practices.
- Experience contributing to open-source software;
- Familiarity with MediaWiki;
- Interest in API-first development or improving developer experience.
- Professional experience in large scale web platforms.
Responsibilities
- Designing, developing, and maintaining key parts of the MediaWiki stack;
- Writing clean, well-documented, and maintainable code;
- Participating in code reviews, design discussions, and technical planning;
- Investigating and resolving production issues with support from other engineers;
- Contributing to the adoption and advocacy of API-first development, and influencing best practices in system design, SLOs/SLAs, and OpenAPI Specification;
- Contributing to improving observability (metrics, logging, monitoring) and reliability of our systems.
- Working with other engineers to improve the development workflow
Other
- Commitment to the Foundation's Mission and Values;
- Clear communicator: You can explain your ideas simply and adapt your communication to different audiences;
- Outcome-oriented: You prioritize work that delivers value to users and aligns with organizational goals, breaking it into manageable steps to deliver incremental value;
- Accountable: You own your work end-to-end and help establish a culture of responsibility and follow-through;
- Candid and respectful: You offer feedback directly, constructively, and with care - and invite the same in return. You support growth by challenging ideas, not people;
- Collaborative: You enjoy working with others to solve problems and are open to feedback.
- Experience working in a remote, distributed team;
