Latest Openings at Wikimedia Foundation

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

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You are responsible for:

• Improving the Wikipedia product experience
• Iterating on new products and features through collaboration with designers and product managers
• Writing multilingual and accessible JavaScript, CSS, and PHP
• Creating and maintaining internet APIs with server scripting languages
• Instrumenting components to monitor feature and quality characteristics
• Leveraging caching and persistence technologies

Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years related professional experience in functional programming or OOP
• Experience building user-friendly features and software components with good performance
• Focused software engineering: you enjoy writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing architectural tradeoffs

Qualities that are important to us:

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

Additionally, we'd love it if you have:

• Fluency in one or more regional languages in Africa, Asia, or Latin America
• Experience developing for markets in Africa, Asia, or Latin America
• Practical skills with Vue.js or React
• Project work in data science, machine learning, AI (especially on natural language)
• A history of open source contribution
• Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field (or equivalent certification)
• Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress). We grow and care for MediaWiki and Wikimedia specific services. MediaWiki is an open source, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript web application that powers Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation websites. It has been incrementally developed for over 15 years to become a richly featured wiki engine and the basis for hundreds of extensions and skins, and has a vibrant volunteer community. Our services utilize a number of technologies.

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As the Technical Community Program Manager we'd like you to do these things:

• Support and help grow a vibrant and global community of technical contributors jointly with your team and others in the Wikimedia movement
• Collaborate with the Hackathon Event Coordinator and provide project management for parts of the Wikimedia Hackathon and other onsite or virtual technical events, including planning and facilitating collaborative program designs, coordinating with other teams and the large volunteer technical community
• Support or co-create initiatives to foster discussion, knowledge-sharing, technical community building and outreach for both enabling the existing technical community as well as reaching new and underserved communities
• Foster a welcoming and inclusive environment for new and experienced technical contributors from all backgrounds and timezones
• Talk with volunteers and teams across the Wikimedia movement to obtain an in-depth understanding of needs and requirements of technical contributors
• Be present in our technical spaces, and communicate widely and frequently with a wide audience of technical volunteers and staff via mailing list, IRC, wikis, and other venues

Share our values, respect our code of conduct, adhere to our team norms, and work in accordance with all three

Skills and Experience:

Qualities that are important to us:

• Strong interpersonal skills, with a track record of modeling collaborative initiatives
• Demonstrated experience in project management for virtual and in-person technical events
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to understand and talk about technical areas and software engineering
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Creative and highly motivated to serve diverse, multilingual and international communities
• Willing and ability to travel several times a year for in-person events, once it is safe to do so

Additionally, we'd love it if you have:

• Experience working with geographically distributed teams
• Experience participating in open source, open data or online volunteer communities
• Experience in video or other media production
• Experience working with MediaWiki, or other wiki software
• Experience or basic understanding with one or more programming languages, such as: Python, Javascript, Node.js, PHP
• Ability to read and write multiple (human) languages