Summary

Over the past three years, different departments at the Wikimedia Foundation have developed learning resources to support Wikimedia communities all over the world advance their work, which includes: engaging new editors and education institutions on Wikipedia (through Wikimedia programs), supporting volunteer developers for MediaWiki (the software on which Wikipedia operates), advocating for law reforms or law enforcements, creating new institutional partnerships, giving direct support to guarantee the safety of Wikipedia users all over the world. Through a new hub, called “Wikimedia Resource Center”, we hope to better connect Wikimedia community members to these resources and one on one support. The Wikimedia Resource Center is a project that has 8 different stakeholders, with specific needs, across the organization.

We’re looking for someone who is comfortable in both a design and a technical role (mostly front-end). The technical design intern will work with the Learning and Evaluation team to flesh out designs, and use their technical expertise to make them into reality, using different technologies.

We’d like you to do these things:   

As a Technical Intern with the Learning and Evaluation team you will be involved in supporting the development of the Wikimedia Resource Center.

• Work closely with the Communications and Outreach Coordinator on the redesign of the Evaluation Portal on Meta Wikimedia.


• Migrate and archive L&E portal pages from existing namespaces to new namespace


• Create a set of templates that can be implemented by different portals informing the Wikimedia Resource Center.


• Mapping the technical support needs and lending support as available to other teams working on portal redesign as part of the Wikimedia Resource Center project


• Engage in dynamic working environments to connect with Wikimedia colleagues throughout the world.


• Other duties as needed.

Deliverables:

• Regular coordination with the Communications & Outreach Project Manager and Community Engagement team members.


• Bi-weekly debriefs with team regarding progress and status of portals linked to the Wikimedia Resource Center.


• Template design and technical integration for support in navigating online resources. The intern should be able to either (a) offer a design solution, which they will develop later on Meta Wikimedia; or (b) be able to work with wireframes and develop templates designed by others on Meta Wikimedia.


• Guides for new template implementation for portals informing the Wikimedia Resource Center. (Example of template documentation on Meta Wikimedia.)


• Redesigned and migrated portal pages with up-to-date information and category links.

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced engineering manager to oversee our Performance Team. We are looking for someone who is passionate about Wikimedia's mission to bring free knowledge to every person on the planet, and who will strive to help Wikimedia software developers learn to incorporate performance into their development practices.

The Engineering Manager will work with the Product and Technology teams at Wikimedia who support engineers and designers building features, products, and services used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. This is an opportunity to do good while improving the performance of one of the best known sites in the world.

YOU ARE ... a smart, experienced, hands on software professional that understands all aspects of performance in a top web property. You have significant software performance experience in large scale systems. You have experience counseling engineering and non-engineering teams about performance requirements and implications of their projects. You know how to build software to the highest standards and hold others to the same high standards. You embrace the concepts of open source software development and the importance of community building. You have experience with and enjoy working with highly technical and passionate teams. You enjoy being part of a large, vibrant, passionate and involved community.

You will be managing a team responsible for ensuring the performance of applications written in PHP and JavaScript, using both relational and key-value data storage mechanisms. The team intervenes at any level of the Wikimedia production stack, including its caching, traffic layers, and more. You should be comfortable auditing and improving performance in languages and tools you’ve never worked with before. Given the diversity of our software stack, the ability to get out of one’s comfort zone is a must-have skill to manage the Performance Team.

You will be driving and producing most of the team’s communication, which can take the form of collaboration with other teams, advocacy, internal and external talks, blog posts and more. You will be the chief performance evangelist to the Foundation, the Movement and the greater Web Performance community.

Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote

Summary:

The Wikimedia Android team is a small but impactful group of engineers, product managers, and designers focused on the Wikipedia Android app. The team is looking for an experienced Android developer who wants the challenge of making our apps the most beautiful, groundbreaking, and collaborative applications in the Google Play Store. We’re passionate about our global community of users and want to leverage the strengths of the Android native platform to bring the Wikipedia experience to their fingertips. You will be joining a small, established team to enhance the Wikipedia reading experience, as well as create entirely new Wikipedia experiences with potential for adoption across multiple platforms.

This is a permanent full-time remote or San Francisco-based role.

Responsibilities:

As an engineer on the Android team, you will be responsible for developing new, exciting and beautiful ways to experience Wikipedia content on mobile devices. You will work with a product manager and designer to translate specs and designs into working features. Your contributions will enable millions of Android users to read and contribute to Wikipedia.

In addition to new features, you will work to Improve the quality and testability of our code. This includes fixing bugs, refactoring old code, and performing code review. You will also communicate and coordinate service requirements with back-end engineers.

Since most team members are remote, your day-to-day work will include discussions on Google Hangouts and IRC as well as our bug tracking system.

Full Time: Software Engineer - Full Stack Web Engineer, Multimedia (Remote- USA) at Wikimedia Foundation in Remote-USA

Type:  Contract to Hire 

Duration:  Approximately 3 - 6 mos

Hours:  40 hours per week 

Summary

The Fundraising Banner Designer (FBD) will mockup and design fundraising banners that will be seen on Wikipedia by millions of readers around the world. Using HTML, CSS & Javascript, the FBD will contribute banner entries for deployment through our custom A/B testing system. The goal of the online fundraising department is improvement to donor conversion, and the FBD will play a critical role in building and testing new banner ideas.

We’d like you to do these things

• Employ HTML, CSS and Javascript to create and modify banners and other parts of the donor flow: donation landing pages, Thank You pages & Share options, etc.


• Use graphic design software to create mockups and content for banners, reports, etc.


• Contribute actionable ideas for improvements to banner UI/UX


• QA, deploy, and monitor banner tests through our A/B testing platform

Summary:

Come work within the Technology department at the Wikimedia Foundation!  We are administering a public OpenStack cloud (Infrastructure as a Service) with a modern Platform as a Service (Kubernetes) running on it.  We are dedicated to supporting developers within and outside of the Wikimedia Foundation. Candidates need to be comfortable sharing ideas, providing guidance, following instructions, mentoring volunteers, and communicating in public and asynchronous ways (mailing lists/forums/irc). Our team works remotely and so can you!

 Responsibilities:

• Perform day-to-day operational tasks on Wikimedia’s Cloud Services infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)


• Support volunteer and staff developers using Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) products


• Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools (Puppet, Kubernetes)


• Assist in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale


• Assist in or lead incident response, diagnosis and followup on system outages or alerts across our stack

Location: San Francisco, CA or Remote

Summary:

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Product Manager for MediaWiki.  MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. It is now also used by several other projects of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and by many other wikis, including this website, the home of MediaWiki.  MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation that uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database, such as MySQL.  Pages use MediaWiki's wikitext format, so that users without knowledge of XHTML or CSS can edit them easily.

As the Product Manager, you will build roadmaps and goals in collaboration with partners and ensure that progress is made towards those goals. You will work closely with members from many departments including Engineering, Communications, Legal, and Community Engagement. You will also be responsible for ensuring that communications about the team’s work and project status are shared with the Foundation’s various teams and the community in a timely manner.

This is an amazing opportunity that involves coordinating established technologies and collaborative communities around the globe and will require both hard and soft skills. It will be very challenging, demanding, and extremely rewarding!

Description:

• Work with key partners across the Foundation to build and execute strategies and goals for the MediaWiki software.


• Build and track progress towards achievements for our long term road maps.


• Communicate goals, statuses, and findings throughout the development process to internal and external community partners.


• Identify blockers and other issues to senior management.

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Director of Security to ensure that rapid evolution of the Wikimedia software continues to preserve the security of the sites and the privacy of our users. We are looking for someone who is passionate about Wikimedia's mission to bring free knowledge to every person on the planet, and who will strive to help Wikimedia software developers learn to incorporate secure thinking into their development practice.

The Director of Security will join the other Engineering Directors at Wikimedia who support engineers and designers building features, products, and services used by hundreds of millions of people around the world. This is an opportunity to do good while improving the security, stability, scalability, and maintainability of one of the best known sites in the world.

YOU ARE ... a smart, experienced security professional that understands all aspects of security in a top web property. You have significant software security experience in large scale systems. You understand and enjoy running security operations. You know how to create and operate incident response systems. You have experience counseling engineering and non-engineering teams about the privacy and security implications of their projects and data releases, are familiar with the benefits and vulnerabilities of different anonymization techniques, and can swiftly and effectively manage security incidents. You understand the importance of testing and documentation, and common pitfalls in developing secure web applications. You know how to build software correctly and hold others to the same high standards. You understand the principles of open source software development and the importance of community building. You have experience with and enjoy building and mentoring security teams. You enjoy being part of a large, vibrant, passionate and involved community.

You will be leading a team responsible for ensuring the security and integrity of applications written in PHP, Python, JavaScript (Node.js) among others, using both relational and key-value data storage mechanisms.

As a Director of Security, we’d like you to do these things:

• Develop a threat model for the Wikimedia Foundation and all our projects and define the right security profile in collaboration with your peer group and our IT department.


• Run day-to-day security operations for the Wikimedia Foundation, including our community-facing and enterprise systems.


• Design incident response policies and execute incident response processes.


• Design and deploy account and content abuse detection mechanisms.


• Refine and improve access controls and audits.


• Lead security and privacy incident handling and response.


• Manage external security audits and pen tests and implement mitigation strategies to address discovered vulnerabilities.


• Serve as a subject matter expert on application security, communicating its impact on security, risk, and compliance decisions.


• Manage a team of up to six members, leading performance reviews, hiring, goal-setting, compensation planning, and career development.


• Design and develop security-centric enhancements of Wikimedia systems.


• Conduct security reviews of software designs and implementations.


• Deploy security patches to Wikimedia websites.


• Prepare periodic security releases of MediaWiki software.


• Define and manage department budget.


• Work with peer groups such as Legal, Office IT, Finance, Advancement and others  in the Foundation to define:




• Strategies for addressing security and privacy concerns;


• Initiatives to maintain security as related to software design, development, documentation, and release; and


• Practices to ensure the privacy, security, and integrity of data throughout the collection, access, analysis, release, and retention processes.

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced Senior Product Analyst to help design features that enable our communities to achieve our vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

The Senior Product Analyst for the Community Tech team will play a key role in a new initiative at the Wikimedia Foundation to improve the contribution experience for Wikipedia editors, creating support for a more diverse community and reducing disruptive behavior. Working closely with product managers, developers, community advocates and many passionate volunteers, the Senior Product Analyst will generate actionable insights that drive the development of new tools to help active Wikipedia editors to manage their community projects.

Summary:

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced and hands-on Senior/Lead UX Designer to help build features that enable our communities to achieve our Vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

UX Designers at Wikipedia design and build features, products and services used by hundreds of millions of people around the world every day. This is an opportunity to ‘do good’ while having a high level of impact at a large-scale media property.

You will join the Discovery Department, where we focus on improving the searchability and visibility of content that already exists on Wikipedia and our sister projects. You’ll be supporting teams that work on exciting open source technologies, such as ElasticSearch, OpenStreetMaps, and Wikidata Query Service. These teams are working on ambitious projects that are transforming the way users find and interact with Wikipedia.

The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We also welcome remote and international applicants across all timezones.

As a Senior/Lead UX Designer, we’d like you to do these things:

• Provide technical and personnel management and leadership for a team of 2 designers including hiring, personal development, goal-setting and general support.


• Mentor junior designers on all aspects of UX design


• Create experiences that go beyond good design into delighting users.


• See features through, from idea on paper to implementation. Work with designers, developers, community members, and product managers to help drive product roadmaps with your ideas.


• Work with our growing team of designers to create reusable design patterns which span desktop, tablet and phone.


• Be passionate about content discovery and all its aspects, from search, to maps, to complex query engines.


• Interact with our reader and editor communities from the beginning to end of your design process. Be active in soliciting feedback from both internal and external stakeholders.


• Distill complex concepts into easy to understand talking points to effectively articulate your vision with your team and the community. Illustrate your designs with lightweight specs or living documents to engage with developers.


• Occasionally provide design-related support for other functional teams. Mentor junior designers and share knowledge with non-design staff to raise the overall level of design fluency within the organization.


• Have a creative vision of your own while being able to work within the bounds of what is possible, and imagine what can come next.


• Reduce, simplify, distill. Know how to let go. Create experiences that are effortless for users by reducing UI complexity down to its essential components.

Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Network Operations Engineer to join our Technical Operations team. Would you like to join the small, dynamic team that is responsible for the reliability and performance of a global top-10 website, Wikipedia? The Wikimedia Operations team has a very broad range of responsibilities, and could really use someone to expand its networking expertise.

We are looking for people with a drive to explore, experiment, and learn new technologies. Do you enjoy eliminating boring things from your daily workflow by automating them? Are you comfortable working in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented, open environment and as part of a globally-distributed team? Then you might be just the person we need.

We’d like you to do these things:

• Design, install and administer the global networking infrastructure, including edge, backbone & core network routing, data center access layer switching topologies and network security


• Design and implement routing policies, VLAN topologies, and IP addressing plans


• Investigate and troubleshoot unexpected network and/or systems issues, including routine traffic engineering and DoS mitigation issues


• Manage and implement peering relationships


• Assist in the design and integration of virtual networks for containers and virtualization

The Analytics Team at Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a developer. Join our team of engineers and and help us curate the data generated by the world's largest collaborative project: Wikipedia.

Summary:

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Application Security Engineer to join the Security team working to help protect Wikipedia and our other projects. You'll be working with other developers and security engineers to create new security features, review the security of other people's code, and help find and fix security bugs before they're exploited.

YOU ARE ...a smart security practitioner with experience building and auditing security features in large scale systems. You understand the importance of testing and documentation, and common pitfalls in developing secure web applications. You must have a passion for the WMF mission. We do (almost) everything publicly, and volunteers can add arbitrary JavaScript to our site. That should both frighten and thrill you.

You will be joining a team responsible for ensuring the security and integrity of applications written in PHP, Python, Ruby, Lua, Perl, JavaScript (Node.js) among others, using both relational and key-value data storage mechanisms. (Don't worry, you don't need to have had experience with all of those technologies.)

As an Application Security Engineer, we’d like you to do these things:

• Triage and remediate reported security issues


• Work with Security team members to build and maintain security features


• Review and deploy features developed by the Foundation and community members


• Work with other development teams to ensure that they make safe architectural and implementation choices


• Constantly poke and abuse our software to find bugs before attackers do

Summary:

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Security team working to help protect Wikipedia and our other projects. You'll be working with other developers and security engineers to create and maintain security-centric features of our public sites, and to develop tools used by the Security team to aid in finding and fixing security bugs before they're exploited.

YOU ARE ...a smart software developer with experience building security features in large scale systems. You understand the importance of testing and documentation, and common pitfalls in developing secure web applications. You must have a passion for the WMF mission. We do (almost) everything publicly, and volunteers can add arbitrary JavaScript to our site. That should both frighten and thrill you.

You will be joining a team responsible for ensuring the security and integrity of applications written in PHP, Python, Ruby, Lua, Perl, JavaScript (Node.js) among others, using both relational and key-value data storage mechanisms. (Don't worry, you don't need to have had experience with all of those technologies.)

As a Software Engineer for the security team, we’d like you to do these things:

• Collaborate with Foundation and community members on creation of software specifications


• Implement and maintain security-centric features (authentication/authorization, encryption, hashing, and PKI management)


• Create tools to automate Security team processes


• Write and apply software patches to remediate reported security issues

Full Time: Engineering Manager (Discovery Team) at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, CA or Remote

Full Time: Chief Technology Officer at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, CA or Remote

Full Time: Operatiosn Engineer (LABS) at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, CA or Remote

Summary

Wikipedia's goal is to provide every single person with the sum of all human knowledge and MariaDB is how we store it. You will be joining a small mission driven team of talented highly experienced operations engineers.  As one of the most highly trafficked sites, there is literally nowhere else serving as many page views per engineer. As a DBA with Storage Engineering expertise at the Wikimedia Foundation, you will be responsible for the availability and performance of our database infrastructure. You should be able to; optimize queries, automate anything, benchmark and test new builds of MariaDB and MySQL, plan for disaster recovery, and implement backup systems. This is a unique opportunity to have a huge impact.  Our work is important, and it’s seen by hundreds of millions of people.

Description

• Implementation and maintenance of database and other storage servers in production, staging environments, and Wikimedia Labs


• Database performance tuning, high availability, backups, and general optimization.


• Providing guidance and support to application developers for schema design and schema changes, code review, SQL query tuning


• Handling (Debian) package maintenance, patching and building, upstream bug identification and resolution.


• Expansion of the monitoring and alerting infrastructure


• Multi-datacenter design, capacity and infrastructure planning


• Response to system outages, monitoring key metrics


• General infrastructure operations and system administration, including server installations and configuration management

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to join our executive team. As a member of the organization’s leadership team and senior technology executive, the CTO will lead the technical roadmap for the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia projects, in cooperation with our global communities of volunteers contributors, users, and researchers.

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience with infrastructure support and Linux
• Experience being on-call and providing off-hours coverage in a 24x7 environment
• Comfortable troubleshooting and communicating complex problems
• A history of contributing to open source projects
• Intermediate+ development skills in a high level programming language (We use a lot of Python)
• Solid understanding of networking and TCP/IP fundamentals
• Ability to support users inside and outside of the Wikimedia Foundation

• Replacing a homebrew Openstack management UI with Horizon
• Improving our uptime and availability with better monitoring
• Researching and implementing Openstack Cinder and Neutron
• Migrating work from Sun Grid Engine to Kubernetes

• Openstack
• OpenLDAP
• Puppet
• NFS
• Kubernetes
• Containers (Docker, etc)
• Sun Grid Engine
• Packaging (Deb)

• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
• The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, massages, cooking classes and much more
• The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary
• Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days
• Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses
• For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
• Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
• Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
• Great colleagues - international staff speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people

To apply: http://grnh.se/tjqup3

Help the Wikimedia Foundation develop and maintain the UI and UX of our Transparency Report. This will include tasks to update content, gather and update imagery, and data visualizations. Create new sections of the report as needed. Collaborate with our Legal, Communications, and Engineering teams. Deliver and deploy time sensitive report. This is a part-time role will report into the Legal department.

Contract: User Interface Engineer (Contract) at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Full Time: Product Manager - Discovery at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Full Time: Audience Development Manager (Product) at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Summary

Wikimedia seeks a senior design professional to influence the future of free access to knowledge online. The role will manage the design of the reading experience of Wikipedia and create engaging, delightful products.

The Reading team is focused on increasing impact around the world by changing the way people consume Wikipedia. We have to bring design to the forefront of our product development for Wikipedia to thrive in the context modern product design. We are looking for someone who will cultivate design culture and ensure that our team is working towards a better experience for our readers.

Responsibilities 

• Guide the strategy for the future of reading experiences of Wikipedia


• Maintain the style guide that articulates a consistent design language


• Assist in production level design for web and apps


• Be an enthusiastic leader, educator and mentor on user experience design. Advocate and evangelize for user centered design both within the Foundation and with our community of users


• Stay current on trends in mobile and web user experience, bringing design ideas to the table that push the envelope


• Guide ongoing user research and testing, and translate findings into actionable improvements


• Cooperate and communicate seamlessly across groups


• Commit to serving diverse communities worldwide with a focus on global south

Summary

The Discovery team is looking for a relevance engineer who wants the challenge of refining the search engine that powers discovery for millions of Wikipedia users. Relevance is at the core of the search experience and we need your help to optimize how users discover the sum of all human knowledge. As our search engine evolves we are exploring new ways of searching and ranking across textual, image, and audio/video data and need your help to deliver the most relevant of results to our users.

You’ll join an established team focused on search relevance, evolving how our users find and discover content across Wikipedia and its fellow projects, across all languages.

Responsibilities

• Analyze existing search relevance and ranking algorithms on Wikipedia across all devices to better surface results and develop strategies for improvement


• Conduct analysis of usage metrics and patterns to identify opportunities to improve relevance


• Work closely with researchers, product managers, and engineers from prototyping to production release

Full Time: Software Engineer - Research at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. We operate one of the world’s top ten trafficked websites and have global reach and impact. Technology and innovation is critical in our quest to support every human in sharing knowledge. We are looking for a Sr. UX Designer to help us design new ways to discover, consume and share knowledge. 

Description

• Create experiences that go beyond good design into delighting users.


• See features through from idea on paper through implementation.


• Work with our growing team of designers to create reusable design patterns that span desktop, tablet and phone.


• Interact with our reader and editor community from the beginning to end of your design process.


• Illustrate your designs with lightweight specs or living documents to engage with developers.


• Be both design support for other functional teams as well as driving forward the product roadmap with your own ideas and features.


• Distill complex concepts into simple easy to understand talking points to effectively articulate your vision with your team and the community.


• Be active in soliciting feedback from your design team, as well as other functional groups, be active in reaching out to team members both in the office and remote.


• Reduce, simplify, distill. Know how to let go. Create experiences that are effortless for users by reducing UI complexity down to its essential components.

Summary

Wikimedia Discovery Department is looking for an operations engineer who wants the challenge of innovating, scaling, and evolving the systems that power content discovery for millions of Wikipedia users. Search is at the core of our discovery experience and we need your help to scale it for all users to discover the sum of all human knowledge. We strongly believe in our content and want to build the best knowledge engine in the world.

You’ll join a small team of developers, product managers, and operations engineers focused on search, evolving how our users find and discover content across Wikipedia and its fellow projects, across all languages.  

Description

• Drive all technical operational needs for systems including search, maps, and new services


• Work closely with Wikimedia operations teams for all automation needs


• Monitor, scale, and improve operations stack as necessary

Summary

Wikimedia is seeking a DevOps engineer to work on the Analytics team to help maintain and build infrastructure used to measure Wikipedia’s reach and impact.  DevOps engineers work with software engineers, technical operations, product managers and researchers to ensure they have the Big Data tools they need to improve Wikipedia for hundred of millions of people around the world.

Description

• Perform day-to-day operational tasks (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting) on many aspects of Wikimedia’s analytics infrastructure


• Assist in the research, design, and implementation of Wikimedia analytics infrastructure and services


• Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools (specifically puppet, salt)


• Coordinate and communicate with other members of the Wikimedia engineering teams


• Incident response and diagnosis of system outages or alerts


• Write and update internal documentation of systems and processes

Summary

Wikimedia is seeking a DevOps engineer to work on the Analytics team to help maintain and build infrastructure used to measure Wikipedia’s reach and impact.  DevOps engineers work with software engineers, technical operations, product managers and researchers to ensure they have the Big Data tools they need to improve Wikipedia for hundred of millions of people around the world.

Description

Perform day-to-day operational tasks (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting) on many aspects of Wikimedia’s analytics infrastructure




Assist in the research, design, and implementation of Wikimedia analytics infrastructure and services




Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools (specifically puppet, salt)




Coordinate and communicate with other members of the Wikimedia engineering teams




Incident response and diagnosis of system outages or alerts




Write and update internal documentation of systems and processes

Full Time: Software Engineer - Visual Editor at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Full Time: User Experience Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Full Time: Data Analyst - Search & Discovery at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Full Time: Software Engineer - Relevance at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Summary

We’re looking for an Automation Engineer to help improve our Ruby-based test infrastructure and developer tools. Your contributions will support our feature and service developers in writing and delivering high-quality bug-free code. You have skills and experience working within a team, writing well-structured and deterministic tests while encouraging other engineers to do the same. You can also set up and maintain a stable test infrastructure that executes scheduled and triggered builds reliably and efficiently without holding back the integration of important fixes and new features. Above all, you are motivated to help users of Wikipedia, and other WMF sponsored projects, seamlessly access what matters most to them, free knowledge.

Description

• Create and maintain developer  tools, testing libraries, and test environments for use by other engineers


• Review test implementation and provide feedback to developers regarding test design


• Work with QA and engineers of MediaWiki, services, and mobile applications in identifying opportunities for test and task automation


• Encourage engineers to assume responsibility for their own tests by promoting best TDD and BDD practices

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a pragmatic, detail-oriented Data Analyst to help drive informed product decisions that enable our communities to achieve our Vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Data Analysts are the experts within the organization on measuring what is going on. Their analysis and insight help product analysts and managers envision, scope, and refine features, products and services that hundreds of millions of people around the world use.

You will join the Search & Discovery Department, which is focussed on improving in-site search on all Wikimedia across all platforms, with the view of launching an open-source knowledge engine for the entire web.

Description

• Work closely with product managers to build out and maintain detailed on-going analysis of the usage and performance of  Wikimedia’s search and information discovery products.


• Write database queries and code to analyze Wikipedia usage volume, user behaviour and performance data to identify opportunities and areas for improvement.


• Work with other data analysts to contribute to the development and ongoing maintenance of the department’s dashboards, ensuring they are up-to-date, accurate, fair and focussed representations of the efficacy of the products.


• Communicate clearly and responsively your findings to a range of departmental, organisational, volunteer and public stakeholders, informing and educating them.

Summary

Wikimedia's JavaScript code is executed over half a billion times a day on hundreds of millions of devices. If you can drop our page load time 100ms, you'll have saved our annual visitors from waiting an aggregate 617 years.

Speed is Wikipedia's killer feature. ('Wiki' means 'quick' in Hawaiian.) As the nonprofit organization that runs Wikipedia and its sister projects, we want to create value for readers and editors by making it possible to retrieve and render content at the speed of thought, from anywhere in the world, on the broadest range of devices and connection profiles.

If you are excited by this mission, we want to hear from you. The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a web performance engineer to join a new team dedicated to making Wikipedia fast.

Description

• Work in a small team.


• Set standards for performance and responsiveness across Wikimedia engineering.


• Leverage new web APIs and network protocol extensions to speed up content delivery and interface responsiveness across mobile and desktop.


• Develop benchmarking and observability tools that help developers understand the performance characteristics of their code.


• Curate and maintain a set of key performance indicators for core features.


• Profile, analyze and optimize the performance of existing code.

Summary

We are looking for an exceptional engineer excited to work on search. You will help maintain and improve a search infrastructure that serves 890 million full text searches and billions of find-as-you-type searches every month on Wikipedia and its sister projects. In the process you'll be in the vanguard of open source search, advancing what is possible with open source tools.

Description

We're comfortable that the current search implementation (CirrusSearch and Elasticsearch) is a platform worth building on. Now it's time to build on it by:

• Measuring user perceived result relevance and performance


• Experimenting with improvements to search queries, rankings, and algorithms


• Improve methods by which the communities we serve can help improve the quality of the search index


• Properly support multilingual wikis like Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, and meta.wikimedia.org


• Work closely with desktop, mobile web, iOS app, and Android app teams to customize search for each experience's differences while still ensuring all platforms benefit from shared infrastructure improvements

Full Time: Software Engineer | Front-end at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Full Time: Scrum Master at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Full Time: Android Developer at Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco or Remote

Summary

Wikipedia is where the world turns to understand almost any topic — The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia with a small staff.  We are looking for a great engineer who wants to modernize the infrastructure underlying Wikipedia with distributed storage, services and REST interfaces.  If this excites you we welcome you to join us.

• Work with a small team of four.


• Build a fully replicated storage service powering both internal services and our public REST content API (https://github.com/gwicke/restbase).


• Collaborate with other teams on the development of services for tasks like job queues, notifications, math rendering, citation data retrieval or content classification.


• Use the best available tools & languages for each task. Currently we work a lot with Node.js, Cassandra, Kafka and ElasticSearch, but also use other tools and languages like Python, Java, C, C++ and PHP where it makes sense. Go or Scala could be options in the future.


• Build automated tests and thorough monitoring for the services being developed, and help package the services for internal and third party distribution.


• Change the world for more than half a billion people every month.

Summary

Can you imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all human knowledge? At the Wikimedia Foundation, we do. To achieve this, we must continually discover better ways of developing software. We seek your help scaling our agile approach to empower our engineering teams building tools in the service of free knowledge.

We are looking for an agile coach who embodies the spirit of the agile manifesto and principles to enable our teams to continually improve their sustainability, predictability, and ability to collaborate.

Description

• Coach development teams, engineering managers, product owners, process owners, and stakeholders in sustainable and continually improving software delivery


• Develop and leverage tools for measuring team health to drive team and organization-wide improvement


• Practice servant leadership while being a thought leader in the agile community and beyond