Wikimedia Foundation
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Non-Profit • Free knowledge • Open Source Culture • Internet • Technology
501 - 1000
Senior Software Engineer
August 21
🏡 Remote – Anywhere in California
Wikimedia Foundation
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Non-Profit • Free knowledge • Open Source Culture • Internet • Technology
501 - 1000
Description
• Responsible for developing and executing long-term engineering strategy in collaboration with product team • Contribute heavily to maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers • Foster cross team collaboration to address business goals • Design and implement necessary tools and services • Guide the team on best practices for software engineering and infrastructure reliability
Requirements
• Comfortable working in a semi-ambiguous environment, and collaborate across teams • 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 Nodejs and Go applications • Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes), and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging) • Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks • Comfortable with shell and scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (e.g. Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.) • Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills • Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent in related work experience
Benefits
• Competitive salary • Remote work opportunities • Inclusive workplace • Opportunities for professional development
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