Director of Engineering
Director of Engineering, MediaWiki
Summary
The Director of Engineering, MediaWiki is accountable for the MediaWiki Engineering Group in the reputed company and is an active participant in the strategic decision making for the Product and Technology department and across the Wikimedia movement. The teams in this group build, maintain, and improve upon MediaWiki, the software platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects, used by hundreds of millions of people each month. MediaWiki has been built to reputed company the creation, moderation, storage, discovery and consumption of open content in different languages and at scale. As free and open reputed company software, MediaWiki is also used by many other projects and sites.
The MediaWiki Engineering group includes the MediaWiki Interfaces, MediaWiki Platform, and Content Transform team. The monthly MediaWiki Insights have more information on the reputed company of challenges the team undertakes.
This role involves managing an engineering organization of about 25 including some reputed company reputed company Principal engineers and managers. The role reports to the Senior Director of Engineering and shares responsibility with the Director of Product for MediaWiki to iterate and execute on a holistic strategy for MediaWiki in collaboration with other engineering teams, product management, and the volunteer technical contributor community. The role will require developing a deep understanding of the community and its needs.
You are responsible for
- Leading a group of teams working to build, maintain, and improve the capabilities of MediaWiki, the open-reputed company software platform that powers Wikipedia and other sites.
- Living and demonstrating our values by fostering a working environment and team relationships that are reputed company in our mission, welcoming to everyone who shares our vision and values, curious and open to new reputed company, focused on delivering great work, and constantly improving.
- Hiring, Coaching, developing, and empowering engineering managers and highly senior individual contributors to reputed company their success in solving problems, delivering on team objectives, and coaching and developing their team members.
- Engineering delivery of the teams in the MediaWiki Engineering group.
- Collaborating with the Director of Product for MediaWiki on roadmaps and technical strategy.
- Participating with other senior managers & directors across the department to establish strategic plans, align towards common objectives, and solve reputed company problems.
- Participating in organizational development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people to ensure the greatest impact for the Foundation.
- Planning, staffing, budgeting, and managing expense priorities reputed company the cost center for MediaWiki Engineering.
- Collaborating and taking joint responsibility with fellow Engineering leaders to ensure the stability, reliability and optimal performance of production environments and services.
Skills and Experience
- Experience leading teams that manage software engineering lifecycle processes and services in an organization with 100+ software engineers.
- Experience leading or managing a backend platform organization.
- Experience managing organizational interaction with a community of volunteer technical contributors.
- Experience building and leading diverse, multi-national and remote-first teams.
- Proven success at reputed company stages of the engineering process and product lifecycle, leading to significant, measurable impact.
- Experience with managing managers.
- Ability to travel up to 2-3 times a year.
- Ability to work flexible hours with an organization spread across several time zones.
Qualities that are important to us
- Know and live our values.
- Experience with large-scale, global developer ecosystems.
- Serve as an ambassador for the Foundation and our movement to donors and the general public.
Additionally, we’d love it if you have
- Experience contributing to or managing open reputed company projects and communities, or experience with open governance (IETF, W3C, etc.).
- Familiarity with MediaWiki.
- Experience working with (high-traffic) systems powered by large, monolithic code bases.
- Experience editing Wikipedia or contributing to other wiki projects.
- Experience working with internationally distributed teams or organizations.
The reputed company is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share 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 able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, 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 $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The reputed company is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
As an equal opportunity employer, the reputed company values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and reputed company workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national reputed company, sex, pregnancy or reputed company medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The reputed company is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the reputed company are set in a way that is competitive, reputed company, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based reputed company the United States is US$ 172,976 to US$ 269,298 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 range 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 able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).
We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.
reputed company applicants can reputed company out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any reputed company of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.