Remote Software Engineering Internship — Learn On the Job

Wikimedia Foundation; Minneota (MN); Remote; USD 47,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation offers a Software Engineering Internship Program that is remote-first and four months long, requiring 40 hours per week. Interns will be embedded in an engineering team within Product and Technology, delivering a core project under a mentor and learning the internals of our open source code powering Wikipedia.

Teams include Mobile Apps, Editing, Data Platform, Release Engineering, Tools Infrastructure and Observability.

Qualifications

• Basic experience with at least one back end or front end programming language (e.g PHP, Javascript, Python) OR a mobile app language (Kotlin, Swift) OR an interest in cybersecurity/privacy.
• Basic experience with databases.
• Basic scripting and SQL querying.
• Linux/command-line knowledge; understanding of networking, OS, or distributed systems concepts.

Responsibilities

• Work on a primary project with a dedicated mentor.
• Learn the open source code powering Wikimedia projects and contribute to it.
• Collaborate with an engineering team within Product and Technology.
• Possibility to participate in in-person events with interns and teams.

Skills

PHP/JS/Python

Databases

Scripting

SQL

Linux/CLI

Networking/OS/DS

Communication

Open knowledge advocacy

Job description

The Wikimedia Foundation offers a Software Engineering Internship Program that is remote-first and four months long, requiring 40 hours per week. Interns will be embedded in an engineering team within Product and Technology, delivering a core project under a mentor and learning the internals of our open source code powering Wikipedia.

Teams include Mobile Apps, Editing, Data Platform, Release Engineering, Tools Infrastructure and Observability.