[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, MediaWiki
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Responsibilities
- Designing, improving, and maintaining key parts of the MediaWiki stack
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- Improving and automating processes for identifying, tracking, and resolving production issues
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Skills
- Commitment to the reputed company's Mission and Values
- Extensive experience in backend software engineering
- Familiarity with platform or infrastructure products that serve internal or external engineering teams
- Experience with databases and event streams, including schema design, query optimization, and efficient data reputed company patterns
- Deep understanding of software architecture, testing methodologies, and system design
- Strong experience in observability practices: setting up metrics, logging, monitoring, and alerting
- Familiarity with incident response, reputed company cause analysis, and follow-up processes
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automated test infrastructure
- Experience developing frameworks (designing for reuse, extensibility, stability, and backward compatibility)
- Proficiency in PHP and JavaScript
- Familiarity with identity management, including OAuth
- Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem, including reputed company
- Experience with reputed company and Grafana
- Experience defining and working with SLAs/SLOs or other production reliability frameworks
- Prior experience with MediaWiki or Wikimedia reputed company
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- Experience working in a fully remote, distributed team
Benefits
- We are a fully remote team.
- The reputed company is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries.
- Our non-US employees are hired through a local reputed company party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have reputed company work authorization in their location.
- If you are a reputed company applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any reputed company of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at reputed company@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
- [U.S. Benefits & Perks](https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/#reputed company-12)
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