Wikimedia Foundation

Engineering Manager, Wikidata Platform

Wikimedia Foundation

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

Visit company website

Explore more

✨ AI Apply
Apply

Salary

💰 $132,439 - $208,378 per year

About the role

  • Addresses issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of Foundation priorities & current business trends
  • Lead timely, high-quality engineering delivery for WDQS and related query platform services, including large-scale platform or data migrations involving multiple teams and stakeholders
  • Ensure reliability, performance, and sustainability of existing and future query infrastructure
  • Oversee planning activities including estimation, resource allocation, and work break-down, and balance roadmap work with maintenance needs
  • Triage incoming issues, bugs, and operational incidents
  • Develop and drive long-term engineering strategy for WDQS, including lifecycle management, architectural tradeoffs, and future planning
  • Partner with SRE and other Foundation teams to ensure operational excellence and alignment across the data ecosystem
  • Safeguard privacy, security, and data integrity across query services
  • Provide technical input on system design, complexity, estimates, and feasibility
  • Hire, onboard, mentor, and support the professional growth and performance of engineers on the Wikidata Platform team
  • Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and psychologically safe culture
  • Ensure healthy team processes and rituals, time management, and sustainable on-call practices
  • Partner closely with the Product and Tech Leads to define roadmaps, priorities, work scopes, and deliver impactful outcomes
  • Proactive dependency management—staying on top of the teams we depend on and the teams that depend on us
  • Maintain strong, productive collaboration with Wikimedia Deutschland (WMDE) product and engineering counterparts
  • Communicate technical plans, risks, and progress clearly to internal teams, leadership, and external stakeholders.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of engineering management experience leading teams building API-driven or platform-level data services
  • Experience collaborating closely with product and tech leads on software development teams that ship products with community input
  • Experience building and operating large-scale, high-throughput products, with strong foundations in observability, incident response, runbook quality, and overall operational excellence
  • Experience guiding software systems through their full lifecycle
  • Strong people management skills including hiring, coaching, and performance management
  • Experience working with data streams and data-intensive applications
  • Experience navigating challenges related to privacy-sensitive data
  • Ability to influence and drive results across multiple teams in a distributed organization.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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

Hard Skills & Tools
API-driven servicesplatform-level data serviceslarge-scale productshigh-throughput productsobservabilityincident responserunbook qualitydata streamsdata-intensive applicationssystem design
Soft Skills
engineering managementpeople managementhiringcoachingperformance managementcollaborationcommunicationinfluenceteam processespsychological safety