Senior Engineering Manager

Responsibilities

• Foster a supportive team environment and ensure diverse voices are heard
• Guide team members with structured development techniques
• Coach engineers in software engineering and evolvable software architecture
• Own technical decisions and collaborate with the team on complex problems
• Lead long-term technical strategy for the Wikimedia Enterprise team
• Participate in hiring with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Partner with peers on cross-team delivery and organizational updates
• Facilitate product technical strategy and roadmap setting
• Supervise budget and staffing

Requirements

• Expertise in B2B environments with high and unpredictable scale
• History of developing high productivity engineering teams
• Experience managing teams with tight SLAs
• Experience supporting complex web applications on AWS or similar cloud platforms
• Experience with Kafka or similar distributed event processing systems
• Experience with Node.js, Go, and PHP applications
• Proficiency with configuration management and orchestration tools like ECS or Kubernetes
• Experience with modern observability infrastructure
• BS/MS/Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with Wikipedia, wikitext, or markdown
• Experience with content management systems like MediaWiki, Drupal, or WordPress
• Experience with service-based and streaming architectures

About the Company

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.