Website Project Manager
Kanopi Studios
DrupalOpen SourceWordPress
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Wikimedia Foundation
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
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💰 $134,133 - $208,254 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
DrupalJavaScriptOpen SourcePHPWordPress
About the role
- Work in a mostly-remote environment valuing teamwork and close collaboration
- Build new infrastructure capabilities into MediaWiki
- Profile, refactor, and optimize parts of the infrastructure to enable new tools and feature development
- Maintain pieces of infrastructure software
- Write resilient, maintainable systems and high-quality code focused on long-term sustainability
- Implement observability to maintain high levels of quality and system stability
- Contribute to technology that powers Wikipedia and sister projects and protect free access to information for everyone
Requirements
- 8+ years related professional experience
- Experience building and maintaining large-scale applications
- Proficiency in PHP, Javascript and relational databases
- Experience in driving cross-teams objectives
- Experience in driving user and product impact
- Collaboration, humility, and a shared commitment to Wikimedia’s vision
- Communicate with clarity and empathy, both in synchronous and asynchronous settings
- A history of open source contributions (desired)
- Familiarity with editing Wikipedia, Wikitext, Markdown, or using CMS (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress) (desired)
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field (or equivalent certification) (desired)
