Senior Engineering Manager, Wikimedia Enterprise

As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will be a leader managing the technical roadmap and talented team of engineers behind our Wikimedia Enterprise product. In this role, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to architecting, building, and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. You will work alongside the product and sales teams to define the long term strategy for Wikimedia Enterprise and support the financial sustainability of the Wikimedia movement.

The Enterprise product is in its early stages, and this role will change and shape over time as the team grows. We are a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment, and embrace new technologies. We build quickly, deploy often, and our work has a very high impact on the global knowledge ecosystem. We are looking for someone who is eager to wear multiple hats and utilize their experience managing a strong team and setting a culture of collaboration and excitement.

Travel is not required but can be helpful for co-ordination and planning at times, some travel is expected, usually 1-2 times per year.

• 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

Skills and Experience:

• 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

Qualities that are important to us:

• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• Ability to communicate clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
• Experience with service based and streaming architectures