Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation

Summary

• The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join our team, reporting to the release engineering team. Software engineers on the Release Engineering team steward the developer experience for our technical community.
• We build development environments, maintain CI/CD infrastructure, and design tools and processes to support our technical community. We believe in integrity, quality, collaboration, and free and open source software. Release Engineering is a remote team with six people spanning nine time zones.

You are Responsible for

• Deploying Wikipedia and our other wikis
• Helping design our continuous delivery system in GitLab
• Using Docker to build development environments
• Building our automated deployment pipeline
• Upgrading and maintaining Release Engineering tools for our large developer user base:
• CI/CD infrastructure: Jenkins, Zuul, Docker, GitLab
• Code review: GitLab/Gerrit
• Issue tracking: Phabricator 
• Deployment tooling: Kubernetes/Helm
• Being a role model for Wikimedia's values 

Qualification, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in related work experience
• Written and verbal English communication skills
• Collaboration and consensus-making skills
• Experience with systems/DevOps engineering and software
• Experience with continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) systems
• Familiarity with server configuration management software (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, or Puppet)
• Familiarity with container image maintenance

Qualities that are Important to us:

• Professional experience with one or more of the following: Python, Go, PHP
• Experience with Puppet
• Experience with GitLab administration  

Additionally, we’d Love it if You Have:

• Free culture/Free software experience
• Remote work experience
• You are inspired by our guiding principles and our mission
• Familiarity with/involvement in the Wikimedia community
• Located within UTC+3-UTC-8 time zones