The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a staff software engineer to work on various infrastructure projects to power Wikipedia and its sister projects, which serve billions of pageviews every month across hundreds of languages.
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale applications
- Proficiency in PHP, Javascript and relational databases
- A history of open source contributions
- Familiarity with editing Wikipedia, Wikitext, Markdown, or using content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
Responsibilities
- Build new infrastructure capabilities into MediaWiki.
- Profile, refactor, and optimize various parts of the infrastructure to enable the development of new tools and to empower more feature development teams.
- Maintain pieces of infrastructure software.
- Write resilient, maintainable systems and high-quality code with a focus on long-term sustainability.
- Implement observability to maintain high levels of quality and system stability.
Other
- 8+ years related professional experience
- Experience in driving cross-teams objectives
- Experience in driving user and product impact
- Collaboration, humility, and a shared commitment to Wikimedia's vision of free knowledge for all guide everything we build
- Communicate with clarity and empathy, both in synchronous and asynchronous settings.
