Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure - Remote

Overview

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a staff software engineer to join the Product Department and work on various infrastructure projects. In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment, where we value teamwork and close collaboration to achieve our goals. Engineers at the Wikimedia Foundation get to work on technology that truly makes a global impact — powering Wikipedia and its sister projects, which serve billions of pageviews every month across hundreds of languages. It's a rare opportunity to contribute to one of the largest knowledge-sharing platforms in the world, and to help protect free access to information for everyone, everywhere.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• 8+ years related professional experience
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale applications
• Proficiency in PHP, Javascript and relational databases
• Experience in driving cross-teams objectives
• Experience in driving user and product impact

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on impactful projects.
• Remote-first work culture.
• Inclusive and equitable workplace.
• Competitive and equitable salary structure.
• Support for diverse backgrounds and experiences.