Senior Engineering Manager, Wikimedia Enterprise

Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The Senior Engineering Manager will lead the technical roadmap and manage a team of engineers to develop and maintain Wikimedia Enterprise, focusing on enhancing data feeds for high volume reusers and supporting the financial sustainability of the Wikimedia movement.

Responsibilities:

• Fostering a supportive team environment, ensuring diverse voices are heard and team members feel empowered to lead
• Guiding team members with structured development techniques
• Coaching engineers in the art and science of software engineering and evolvable software architecture
• Owning technical decisions and working closely with team to find best solutions to hard problems
• Leading conversations about long term technical strategy of the Wikimedia Enterprise team, with understanding of the principles of the movement
• Being a strong voice, leader, and collaborator on team activities including code reviews, ceremonies, and work allocation
• Participating in hiring considerate of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Partnering with peers on cross-team delivery and radiating organizational updates
• Facilitating product technical strategy and roadmap setting with software engineers and technical product management
• Supervising budget and staffing

Requirements:

• Expertise in B2B environments that require high and unpredictable scale
• History of developing high productivity engineering teams working on challenging problems
• Expertise managing teams with tight SLAs behind their work
• 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 Node.js, Go and PHP applications
• Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes) and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
• BS/MS/Ph.D in Computer Science or other relevant technical field or the equivalent in work experience
• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• Ability to communicate clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels
• Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
• Experience with service based and streaming architectures