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  • Posted: Aug 26, 2022
    Deadline: Not specified
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    The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools...
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    Senior Software Engineer - Performance

    You are responsible for:

    • Sharing our values and working in accordance with them
    • Understand, propose and pursue success metrics
    • Being impact driven and able to align with the Foundation's priorities
    • Work together with management to define high-level timelines, solve blockers and avoid delays
    • Being open and able to ask for help from your teammates and learn from your own and other's mistakes
    • Mentoring and supporting other engineers in the Foundation
    • Being able to change your opinion and compromise when presented with new evidence or product input.
    • Is able to propose solutions considering a complex array of inputs and needs

    Skills and Experience:

    • Ability to give and receive feedback in a constructive and honest manner.
    • Familiarity with observability tools (such as Prometheus, or Logstash)
    • Basic knowledge about main performance metrics and tests
    • Ability to communicate well across different teams, roles, and contexts
    • 5+ years of development experience in at least one language - PHP, python, Nodejs
    • Bachelor's degree in a related field or the equivalent in work related experience

    Qualities that are important to us:

    • Track record of open source contributions is highly appreciated
    • Familiarity with core distributed systems concepts
    • Familiarity with monitoring synthetic measurements (WebPageTest, WebPageReplay, Browsertime) and Real User Monitoring (direct collection, stored in Prometheus/Graphite)
    • Familiarity with our backend stack: PHP, MariaDB, Varnish

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Wikimedia Foundation on boards.greenhouse.io to apply

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