Software Engineer – Wikidata Platform

🕒 July 15

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💵 $95.2k - $148.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Wikimedia Foundation

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

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.

📋 Description

• Help design, build, and maintain backend systems and APIs • Improve reliability, observability, and automation of the Wikidata Query Service • Integrate Wikidata Platform services with other systems • Develop features and capabilities to ensure stability and scalability • Monitor production systems, respond to operational incidents • Support platform migrations and system upgrades • Contribute to deployment automation, CI/CD workflows • Participate in code reviews and design discussions

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer • Solid understanding of database and/or knowledge graph representation technologies • Proficiency in Java, C++, or other systems languages • Experience building and operating production-grade services with SLOs • Familiarity with modern observability tools • Familiarity with data processing technologies such as graph databases, search indexes, or data processing pipelines • Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines • A commitment to learning, resilience, and contributing to a mission-driven engineering culture

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Remote work options