Senior Software Engineer, MediaWiki Content Platform (PHP)

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United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance Wikipedia’s wikitext processing and the web services behind content rendering. This fully remote role supports GMT-4 to GMT+2 preferences and involves collaboration across teams.

The position emphasizes PHP and MediaWiki-based systems, with salary adjusted by location for non-US applicants and opportunities to mentor others.

Qualifications

Senior engineer to improve Wikipedia’s wikitext processing infrastructure and the web services behind content rendering.

Responsibilities

Improve the markup/wikitext processing systems
Maintain content-rendering web services
Collaborate across teams and mentor

Skills

Wikitext processing

PHP

Content rendering

Mentoring

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, MediaWiki Content Platform (PHP)

Wikimedia is looking for a senior engineer to improve Wikipedia’s wikitext processing infrastructure and the web services behind content rendering, on a platform with half a billion daily page views.

Fully remote (GMT-4 to GMT+2 preferred).

Responsibilities