Senior Engineering Manager

Wikimedia Foundation

Senior Engineering Manager leading engineering efforts for Wikimedia Enterprise. Overseeing technical strategy, team collaboration, and product development initiatives for B2B content and data services.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $157,678 - $250,357 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesNode.jsPHP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Fostering a supportive team environment, ensuring diverse voices are heard and team members feel empowered to lead
Guiding team members with structured development techniques
Coaching engineers in the art and science of software engineering and evolvable software architecture
Owning technical decisions and working closely with team to find best solutions to hard problems
Leading conversations about long term technical strategy of the Wikimedia Enterprise team, with understanding of the principles of the movement.
Being a strong voice, leader, and collaborator on team activities including code reviews, ceremonies, and work allocation.
Participating in hiring considerate of diversity, equity, and inclusion
Partnering with peers on cross-team delivery and radiating organizational updates
Facilitating product technical strategy and roadmap setting with software engineers and technical product management
Supervising budget and staffing

Requirements

What you’ll need

Expertise in B2B environments that require high and unpredictable scale
History of developing high productivity engineering teams working on challenging problems
Expertise managing teams with tight SLAs behind their work
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 Node.js, Go and PHP applications
Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes) and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
BS/MS/Ph.D in Computer Science or other relevant technical field or the equivalent in work experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Flexible working hours
Professional development opportunities
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

Node.jsGoPHPKafkaAmazon Web ServicesECSKubernetesconfiguration managementorchestration toolsobservability infrastructure

Soft Skills

team leadershipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationdiversity and inclusionproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingempowermentsupportive environmentorganizational updates

Certifications

BS in Computer ScienceMS in Computer SciencePh.D in Computer Science