Senior Software Engineer

November 25

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Wikimedia Foundation

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Non-profit • Education • Media

Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the growth, development, and distribution of free, multilingual content. It provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge, including hosting Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created, edited, and verified by a global community of volunteers. Supported primarily through donations, Wikimedia Foundation promotes collaborative projects that aim to share knowledge reflecting human diversity and strives to protect everyone's right to access free and open knowledge.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

📋 Description

• Bringing your creativity to improve our current infrastructure • Being a key part of planning our future technical roadmap • Maintaining and improving the reliability of highly used commercial data feeds • Supporting new code/feature deployments • Troubleshooting, debugging and following-up on emerging issues in our application stack and its surroundings • Assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale • Incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia Enterprise’s production infrastructure

🎯 Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent in related work experience • Experience in supporting complex web applications running on Amazon Web Services or other comparable cloud platforms • Experience working with Kafka or similar distributed event processing systems • Experience working with Nodejs and Go applications • Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes) • Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills • Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team • Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks. • Track record of open source contributions is highly appreciated. • Experience with non-cloud hosted infrastructure. • Startup experience is a plus. • Remote work experience with a highly distributed team.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Health insurance • Retirement plans • Flexible work arrangements • Paid time off • Professional development opportunities