Current Vacancies at Wikimedia Foundation

You are responsible for:

• Design, implementation and maintenance of public facing infrastructure and services
• Use of configuration management and deployment tools
• Architectural design and operation at scale
• Monitoring of systems and services, optimization of performance and resource utilization
• Common operating system level tasks such as logging and backup / restore
• Cookbook / runbook implementation for common maintenance actions
• Incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts
• Automation and streamlining of tasks as well as identifying process gaps
• Collaborating with a global and asynchronously communicating team (don’t worry if you have never worked remotely, we’ll help you get used to it)
• Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength

Skills and Experience:

• Strong experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible. Proficient in at least one programming language (Python,, Go, or similar).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.
• Experience managing Cloud services and discovering cost savings (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, and ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Excellent communication skills with a strong emphasis on contributing to documenting processes and runbooks, and ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Incident Management: Experience with incident management and on-call rotation practices, as well as tools like PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
• SRE Best Practices: Understanding of SRE principles, such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and blameless postmortem.
• Familiarity with Wikimedia or other open source projects is a plus.
• If you are passionate about building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and highly available infrastructure on AWS, and thrive in a dynamic and collaborative environment, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our team at Wikimedia Enterprise

Qualities that are important to us:

• Experience with operating highly available infrastructure
• Experience with running applications and services at scale
• Proficient with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go,, etc.)
• Comfortable with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (, Ansible, TerraForm etc.)
• Communicative technical English

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Experience implementing containerization solutions (Docker, ECS, EC2, Kubernetes)
• Experience administering code collaboration software (Gitlab, Gerrit)
• Experience with managing and troubleshooting Event Streaming Services at scale (Kafka, Kinesis, etc)
• Experience with AWS tools is an advantage. Key services include EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudFront, Route 53, IAM, and KMS
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform, Helm or AWS CDK
• Security: Knowledge of security best practices in AWS, including the shared responsibility model, IAM policies, encryption, and data protection. Familiarity with AWS WAF, AWS Shield, or AWS Security Hub is bonus
• Experience with package management for operating systems (Debian, etc)
• We are avid supporters (and users) of open source software; history of contributing to Open Source projects is valued
• Prior participation in the Wikimedia movement

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Essential Functions of Role:

Content

• Provide legal advice and counsel regarding content on the Wikimedia projects, with appropriate attention to both community governance policies and our Applicable Law policy.
• Advise the Foundation on current and forthcoming regulations related to online content.Provide related product counseling advice regarding technical features of the Wikimedia platform.
• Help protect and defend content on the Wikimedia projects, and the community governance model.
• Monitor legal developments that may impact the accessibility of Wikimedia content, highlight potential risks, and work with the litigation and access to knowledge teams to plan responses where necessary
• Support the evolution of the Wikimedia Foundation’s bi-annual Transparency Report.
• Recommend and implement changes to report content and metrics tracked, drawing on applicable regulations, industry standards, and feedback from the Wikimedia communities.

Advocacy

• Work with lawyers and public policy professionals to refresh our strategy and process for filing amicus briefs and other legal interventions in support of the Wikimedia mission, and execute such.
• Identify potential actions, and coordinate with legal and advocacy leadership to select opportunities.
• Work with Wikimedia legal and advocacy subject matter experts, as well as local counsel, to draft and file actions.
• Partner with the Communications and Global Advocacy teams to keep the Wikimedia communities informed about our strategic litigation.
• Coordinate Foundation advocacy strategy with Wikimedia movement organizations and other allies in the free knowledge space.
• Liaise with the Litigation team in order to help maintain a holistic view of both defensive and strategic litigation.

Additional Duties

• Advise the Foundation on other domestic and international legal and policy questions, which may include privacy, contract, copyright, trademark, or defensive litigation matters.

Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Experience:

• JD from an accredited law school and current membership in good standing with at least one US state bar.
• Experience advising online platforms or media organizations regarding online content.
• Experience leading cross-functional efforts, especially with product or technical teams, to implement legal advice.
• Experience supporting public policy professionals in executing an advocacy strategy, especially on matters relating to online environments, such as content, copyright, platform responsibility, privacy, etc.
• Experience working across borders, on matters in non-U.S. jurisdictions, or for clients outside the U.S., particularly matters relating to European law.
• Ability to identify and implement practical solutions to abstract or complex problems.
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, multitasking environment that demands high-quality work.
• Ability to dedicate to projects, adhere to deadlines, and complete work independently.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.

Please note, this role may call for travel, including internationally, and for travel or work on weekends if and when needed, due to conferences, legal needs, etc. This is not a requirement, and alternate arrangements may be made where appropriate.

Qualities that are important to us:

• Appreciation for and alignment with Wikimedia’s mission.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills and ability to work well on a team.
• A desire to learn, stretch, and grow.

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• 6+ years practicing law.
• Experience working in-house.
• Prior experience working with or participating in large volunteer communities.
• Experience working on media law-related matters.
• Experience working as product counsel for a technology company.
• Experience with software programming, engineering, or design.
• Ability to speak additional languages besides English.
• Prior work, internship, or volunteer experience in the nonprofit sector.