About this role
Job title: Senior Engineering Manager
About the Role As the Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead the technical roadmap and a talented team of engineers behind Wikimedia Enterprise. You’ll help architect, build, and maintain Wikipedia’s data feeds for high-volume reusers, partnering with product and sales to define long-term strategy and support financial sustainability. The Enterprise product is in its early stages, and the role will evolve as the team grows. We are a distributed, diverse team focused on rapid delivery and high impact.
What You'll Do
- 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
What We're Looking For
- Expertise in B2B environments that require high and unpredictable scale
- History of developing high productivity engineering teams
- Experience 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
- Desirable: strong communication in synchronous and asynchronous channels, commitment to knowledge equity and open access
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
- Experience with service-based and streaming architectures
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range not disclosed; salaries are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture
- Remote-first organization with staff across 40+ countries; travel 1-2 times per year is possible but not required
- We rely on donations and grants; the Wikimedia Foundation is a US tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization