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