Senior Software Engineer, Wikimedia Enterprise

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2d • Remote

About The Position

In this role, you will design, build, and maintain high-impact services that deliver Wikimedia content to organizations at scale. You will contribute to the long-term technical roadmap, ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of data feeds used by high-volume consumers. Working within a globally distributed, startup-like engineering team, you will tackle complex technical challenges while fostering collaboration across product and infrastructure teams. Your work will influence how content is accessed, reused, and integrated worldwide, directly impacting billions of users. This position offers a fast-paced, innovative environment where creativity, system-level thinking, and high-quality execution are valued. You will be responsible for architecting solutions, responding to incidents, and optimizing workflows to maintain a reliable, secure, and performant platform. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure that underpins a global knowledge ecosystem.

Requirements

• Proven experience in supporting complex web applications on cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and distributed systems (Kafka or similar).
• Strong proficiency in Node.js and Go, along with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Ruby.
• Experience with configuration management, orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes), and observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics, logging).
• Solid understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging in production environments.
• Comfort working in semi-ambiguous, fast-paced, and startup-like environments.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively within a globally distributed team.
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• Open source contributions, non-cloud infrastructure experience, startup experience, or multilingual fluency.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and maintain highly reliable data feeds and services for large-scale content distribution.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to plan, implement, and execute the technical roadmap.
• Design scalable infrastructure, architect new services, and optimize existing systems to ensure high performance.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues across the application stack and production infrastructure.
• Participate in incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up for system outages or alerts.
• Contribute to best practices, tooling, and automation to improve operational efficiency and system reliability.
• Share knowledge and mentor team members on software engineering and infrastructure standards.

Benefits

• Fully remote role with flexible working hours across UTC+0 to UTC+2 time zones.
• Competitive and equitable compensation based on experience, skills, and location.
• Opportunity to work on high-impact projects affecting global knowledge access.
• Collaborative, innovative, and startup-like engineering environment within a mission-driven organization.
• Structured onboarding, tools, and resources to support high-performance engineering.
• Inclusive, diverse, and globally distributed team culture.
• Opportunities for professional growth, mentorship, and learning in cutting-edge technologies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level