Staff Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation

We are a dedicated group of diverse folks who build our values of feminism, decolonialism, and psychological safety into our everyday work. We work in a collaborative, high trust, high-empathy environment.

You are responsible for:

• Building a strong understanding of our current deployment processes
• Identifying current challenges of getting high quality software to production where multiple tiers of architecture and complex user generated content are involved.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to develop a path to production that enables development teams to reliably deliver high quality software to production in a self service manner.

Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrated ability collaborating across teams and leading cross-functional efforts.
• Extensive professional experience with Software Quality principles.
• Professional experience with continuous integration and deployment.
• Professional experience with test automation technologies
• Demonstrated advanced understanding of functional or object-oriented programming.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and apply new technologies

Qualities that are important to us:

• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• A detail-oriented mindset
• An emphasis on communicating clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels

Additionally, we'd love it if you have:

• Experience working with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• A history of open source contribution
• Bachelor's degree in CS, engineering or related field OR the equivalent in relevant work experience
• Experience testing sites in non-Western languages including right-to-left languages