Identifying and executing on opportunities that have area/group-wide impact
Proactively identifying and helping to refocus team's efforts when projects are off-course or not technically feasible and results aren’t moving the needle for our business/team goals
Designing scalable systems that work complementary to already existing ones and carve a path for easy migrations
Mentoring and supporting less experienced developers on technical and delivery challenges
Leading the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale
Incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia Enterprise’s production infrastructure
Sharing our values and work in accordance with them

Requirements

Advanced technical expertise of modern software architectures.
Comfortable working in a semi-ambiguous environment, and able to navigate a complex ecosystem
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 Nodejs and Go applications
Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes), and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks
Comfortable with IaC (Infrastructure as code): Terraform, ansible
Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills
Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent in related work experience.

Benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

software architectureweb applicationsAmazon Web ServicesKafkaNode.jsGoECSKubernetesInfrastructure as CodeLinux/Unix

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B.S. in Computer ScienceM.S. in Computer Science