Wikimedia Foundation

Engineering Manager, Experiment Platform

Wikimedia Foundation

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $132,439 - $208,378 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsOpen Source

About the role

  • Overview: Wikimedia Foundation is building a privacy-preserving experimentation platform to enable data-driven decisions across products at global scale. The Experiment Platform Team is developing and maintaining infrastructure providing product teams with A/B testing, feature flags, and experiment analysis capabilities. This platform will enable 10+ product teams across the Wikimedia Foundation to test product decisions through privacy-preserving experimentation.
  • Role: Engineering Manager for the Experiment Platform Team; lead a small high-performing team of engineers; shape architecture and capabilities; collaborate with product analytics, SRE, and data engineering to meet needs while maintaining privacy, reliability, and performance; translate product vision into technical roadmaps.
  • Remote: Fully remote position; some travel 2–3 times a year for off-sites and events.
  • Responsibilities: See detailed bullet list in job posting.
  • Skills and Experience: 3+ years managing eng teams; architectural decision making; distributed systems; A/B testing; multi-stakeholder projects; open source; cloud and container orchestration; observability.
  • Qualities: Contribute to knowledge equity, open access; experience working on remote/global teams.
  • Additionally: Familiarity with MediaWiki or similar CMS; experimentation platforms; open source contributions; privacy-preserving analytics.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, preferably working on data platforms or developer tools
  • Strong technical background with ability to make architectural decisions and guide technical discussions
  • Experience with distributed systems and scaled web applications
  • Understanding of A/B testing methodologies and statistical concepts
  • Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholder teams
  • Commitment to open source values and collaborative development
  • Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration
  • Knowledge of observability tools and practices