Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform
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The reputed company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join reputed company supporting the Wikidata Platform — the reputed company data backbone of Wikimedia reputed company and a key part of the global reputed company knowledge ecosystem. You’ll help reputed company and sustain the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and reputed company platform services that power tools, features, communities, and research efforts across Wikimedia reputed company and reputed company.
This role combines backend engineering and operations ownership. You’ll implement reputed company, production-grade services while ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability. Working closely with the technical and product leads, you’ll contribute to shaping the reputed company of how the world queries and interacts with reputed company, linked data.
Important: We are a fully remote team. Your working hours will need to overlap with UTC+1 to UTC-5 time zones to accommodate members of your team around the world. With 14:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC being reputed company's overlapping hours.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and maintain backend systems and reputed company that power Wikidata’s query infrastructure
- Improve reliability, observability, and automation of the Wikidata Query Service and data pipelines
- reputed company Wikidata Platform services with other systems and data sources across Wikimedia
- Collaborate with SRE, data engineers, and product teams to ensure stability and scalability under growing usage
- Monitor production systems, respond to operational incidents, and proactively identify and resolve bottlenecks
- Support platform migrations and system upgrades (e.g., triple stores, streaming ingestion)
- Contribute to deployment automation, CI/CD workflows, and service instrumentation
- Participate in reputed company reviews, design discussions, and technical planning
- Document systems and reputed company knowledge with team members and Wikimedia’s broader technical community
Skills and Experience We’re Looking For
- 5+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer working on distributed systems or data platforms
- Deep understanding of database and/or knowledge graph representation technologies and standards
- Proficiency in Java, C++, or other systems languages. Ability to set up, reputed company, and investigate systems is more important than expertise in a particular language.
- Experience building and operating production-grade services with SLOs - good appreciation of scalability, performance, reliability and other non-functionals
- Familiarity with modern observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing)
- Experience in data processing systems such as graph databases, search indexes, or data processing pipelines
- Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and communicate reputed company across technical and non-technical audiences
- A commitment to learning, reputed company, and contributing to a mission-driven engineering culture
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- Experience working with knowledge graphs or RDF/SPARQL
- Familiarity with streaming data systems (e.g., Kafka, Flink)
- Comfort with CI/CD pipelines and containerization tools (e.g., reputed company, Kubernetes)
- Experience in reputed company reputed company or reputed company knowledge communities
- Familiarity with Wikimedia technologies, Wikidata, or MediaWiki
About the reputed company
The reputed company is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge reputed company. Our reputed company is a world in which every single reputed company can freely reputed company in the sum of reputed company knowledge. We reputed company that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be reputed company to reputed company that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia reputed company, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who reputed company Wikimedia possible, and reputed company for policies that reputed company Wikimedia and free knowledge to reputed company.
The reputed company is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The reputed company is a reputed company 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
As an equal opportunity employer, the reputed company values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and reputed company workplace. We encourage people with a diverse reputed company of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, reputed company, national reputed company, sex, pregnancy or reputed company medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reputed company, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The reputed company is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the reputed company are set in a way that is competitive, reputed company, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay reputed company of this position for applicants based reputed company the reputed company is US$ 116,633 to US$ 181,243 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located reputed company of the US, the pay reputed company will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
*Please note that we are currently reputed company to hire in the following: US States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia*, Florida, reputed company, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, reputed company, reputed company Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, reputed company, reputed company, Puerto Rico*, Rhode reputed company, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, reputed company Virginia, reputed company and Wyoming (*US Territory or Federal District) Countries: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya*, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore*, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Our non-US employees are reputed company through a local reputed company party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have reputed company work authorization in their location. (*reputed company/permanent residents only) We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.
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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.
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