Senior Engineering Manager, Wikimedia Enterprise

Visa Hunt; United States; Remote; USD 158,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the technical roadmap and a distributed team behind the Wikimedia Enterprise product. You will help architect, build, and maintain high-volume data feeds for global reusers, collaborating with product and sales to set long-term strategy and support the movement’s financial sustainability.

The role involves shaping culture, mentoring engineers, and driving evolvable software architectures in a remote-first, globally distributed

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams.
• Experience in high-scale B2B environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or similar).
• Experience with Kafka or similar distributed event systems.

Responsibilities

• Foster a supportive, inclusive team environment.
• Guide engineers with structured development practices.
• Coach engineers in software architecture and evolvable design.
• Own technical decisions and collaborate on finding optimal solutions.

Skills

Engineering leadership

B2B scalability

Team mentorship

High impact delivery

Education

BS/MS/Ph.D in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Kafka

Node.js

Go

PHP

ECS

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Job description

Summary

Wikimedia Enterprise is a cross-departmental project of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) to build fast, comprehensive, reliable, and secure data ingestion to organizations that wish to repurpose Wikimedia content in other contexts. Wikimedia Enterprise aims to improve the user experience of Wikimedia's readers beyond our own websites; increase the reach and discoverability of Wikimedia content; and improve awareness and ease of attribution and verifiability by the organizations that reuse Wikimedia content the most — all through revenue-generating services. Read more about the project in WIRED and Insider when it was launched. You can also learn more on our current services and projects at our blog.

Job Description

As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will be a leader managing the technical roadmap and talented team of engineers behind our Wikimedia Enterprise product. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to architecting, building, and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. You will work alongside the product and sales teams to define the long term strategy for Wikimedia Enterprise and support the financial sustainability of the Wikimedia movement.

The Enterprise product is in its early stages, and this role will change and shape over time as the team grows. We are a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment, and embrace new technologies. We build quickly, deploy often, and our work has a very high impact on the global knowledge ecosystem. We are looking for someone who is eager to wear multiple hats and utilize their experience managing a strong team and setting a culture of collaboration and excitement.

Travel is not required but can be helpful for co-ordination and planning at times, some travel is expected, usually 1-2 times per year.

Responsibilities

• Fostering a supportive team environment, ensuring diverse voices are heard and team members feel empowered to lead
• Guiding team members with structured development techniques
• Coaching engineers in the art and science of software engineering and evolvable software architecture
• Owning technical decisions and working closely with team to find best solutions to hard problems
• Leading conversations about long term technical strategy of the Wikimedia Enterprise team, with understanding of the principles of the movement.
• Being a strong voice, leader, and collaborator on team activities including code reviews, ceremonies, and work allocation.
• Participating in hiring considerate of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Partnering with peers on cross-team delivery and radiating organizational updates
• Facilitating product technical strategy and roadmap setting with software engineers and technical product management
• Supervising budget and staffing

Skills and Experience:

• Expertise in B2B environments that require high and unpredictable scale
• History of developing high productivity engineering teams working on challenging problems
• Expertise managing teams with tight SLAs behind their work
• 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 Node.js, Go and PHP applications
• Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes) and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
• BS/MS/Ph.D in Computer Science or other relevant technical field or the equivalent in work experience

Qualities that are important to us:

• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• Ability to communicate clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
• Experience with service based and streaming architectures

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$157,678 to US$250,357 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.

*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following:

US States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico*, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming (*US Territory or Federal District)
Countries: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya*, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore*, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have current work authorization in their location. (*citizens/permanent residents only)

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$157,678 to US$250,357 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [e-mail] or [phone].

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