Wikimedia Foundation

Legal Fellow (Summer 2024) Summary If you’re a current law student or recent law school graduate passionate about free knowledge and open source issues, applying to our legal fellowship program can provide an immersive in-house experience with specific education and training in the areas of Internet law and free knowledge organizations.  Description The Foundation faces a myriad of legal issues ranging from complex copyright questions to international freedom of speech issues to mobile development to internal corporate compliance. Because of the wide array of legal issues, legal fellows will be assigned challenging projects based on their particular interests and strengths. These projects range from researching various legal questions to drafting licensing agreements to developing internal and external policies.  Each fellow will receive individualized projects that they will be expected to spearhead under the supervision and guidance of an attorney from the Legal...

SENIOR GLOBAL MOVEMENT COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST (ESEAP Region) Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist for the East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation ( ESEAP ). The ideal candidate is an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience connecting, convening and collaborating across the ESEAP region; someone who is passionate about bringing people together around a common cause. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Global Movement Communications, you will be part of the Movement Communications team and the wider Communications Department. You will help us build bridges and a shared understanding across our movement with a particular focus on the ESEAP region.  We are looking for an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience working across the East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation (ESEAP)...

SENIOR GLOBAL MOVEMENT COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST (ESEAP Region) Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist for the East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation ( ESEAP ). The ideal candidate is an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience connecting, convening and collaborating across the ESEAP region; someone who is passionate about bringing people together around a common cause. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Global Movement Communications, you will be part of the Movement Communications team and the wider Communications Department. You will help us build bridges and a shared understanding across our movement with a particular focus on the ESEAP region.  We are looking for an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience working across the East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation (ESEAP)...

Software Engineering Internship Program Location: Remote (US) Duration: 4 months (start in late February 2024) Hours: 40 hrs/week paid experience Application  Deadline: All interested applicants must apply by November 30, 2023 The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia – one of the most popular websites in the world, accessed by over 1.8 billion unique devices every month. It is the only non-profit in the top 50 websites, supported by a community of millions of individual donors around the world. We are looking for graduates, non-graduates, or those seeking a career change who are interested in developing software engineering skills through an immersive “learn on the job” internship program. As an intern, you will be embedded into an engineering team within our Product and Technology departments and assigned a primary project with clear deliverables. Alongside your manager and dedicated mentor, you will learn the inner...

Planned Giving Officer (Principal level role) Summary The Planned Giving Officer will serve as a front-line fundraiser on a team charged with securing annually increasing revenue targets through major, planned, and blended gifts. This newly created high-level role will report to the Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving (MG&PG) and will bring an increased depth of planned giving expertise to the department. The MG&PG team also includes a senior planned giving specialist, a part-time planned giving contractor, and three major gift officers, in addition to other members of the broader Major Gifts, Foundations, and Endowment team who support functions such as prospect research, stewardship, and events.  You are responsible for: Partnering with the Director of Major Gifts & Planned Giving to develop planned giving program strategies. Managing a portfolio of 150-200 planned gift donors and prospects; soliciting 30-50 planned gifts of $10,000+ per year,...

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST Summary Join the Wikimedia Foundation in our ambitious project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge. We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance. As the Senior Financial Analyst on the team, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of our revenue channels and grants programs and provide analytical insight into the financial data for senior executives, managers, and program owners. Your data-driven work supports our Foundation’s vision of a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. You will provide globally distributed teams across multiple continents with insightful analysis, planning and reporting support. You will support the Foundation’s goal of becoming a model for financial planning, analysis and reporting across the Wikimedia Movement by standardizing, improving and...

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST Summary Join the Wikimedia Foundation in our ambitious project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge. We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance. As the Senior Financial Analyst on the team, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of our revenue channels and grants programs and provide analytical insight into the financial data for senior executives, managers, and program owners. Your data-driven work supports our Foundation’s vision of a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. You will provide globally distributed teams across multiple continents with insightful analysis, planning and reporting support. You will support the Foundation’s goal of becoming a model for financial planning, analysis and reporting across the Wikimedia Movement by standardizing, improving and...

SENIOR GLOBAL MOVEMENT COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST (ESEAP Region) Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist for the East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation ( ESEAP ). The ideal candidate is an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience connecting, convening and collaborating across the ESEAP region; someone who is passionate about bringing people together around a common cause. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Global Movement Communications, you will be part of the Movement Communications team and the wider Communications Department. You will help us build bridges and a shared understanding across our movement with a particular focus on the ESEAP region.  We are looking for an experienced communicator, campaigner or community organizer with extensive experience working across the East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Cooperation (ESEAP)...

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST Summary Join the Wikimedia Foundation in our ambitious project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge. We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance. As the Senior Financial Analyst on the team, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of our revenue channels and grants programs and provide analytical insight into the financial data for senior executives, managers, and program owners. Your data-driven work supports our Foundation’s vision of a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. You will provide globally distributed teams across multiple continents with insightful analysis, planning and reporting support. You will support the Foundation’s goal of becoming a model for financial planning, analysis and reporting across the Wikimedia Movement by standardizing, improving and...

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST Summary Join the Wikimedia Foundation in our ambitious project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge. We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance. As the Senior Financial Analyst on the team, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of our revenue channels and grants programs and provide analytical insight into the financial data for senior executives, managers, and program owners. Your data-driven work supports our Foundation’s vision of a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. You will provide globally distributed teams across multiple continents with insightful analysis, planning and reporting support. You will support the Foundation’s goal of becoming a model for financial planning, analysis and reporting across the Wikimedia Movement by standardizing, improving and...

Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, Cloud Services. Cloud Services curates environments that host tools and services utilized across Wikimedia projects. A significant portion of edit traffic on Wikipedia for example, is done by community developed tools we host!  Our team maintains Infrastructure as a Service , Platform as a Service , and Data as a Service products. The team works in partnership ( our puppet repo is public! And yes, you can contribute to it! ) with the larger Wikimedia volunteer community to manage these environments.  Candidates should be comfortable communicating in public and asynchronous ways with volunteers and developers from around the world. You’ll work remotely with a full-time distributed team, with members spread between Europe and North America, and need to overlap (UTC-5 to UTC+1) working hours.  Some examples of the type of work you’ll...

Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, Cloud Services. Cloud Services curates environments that host tools and services utilized across Wikimedia projects. A significant portion of edit traffic on Wikipedia for example, is done by community developed tools we host!  Our team maintains Infrastructure as a Service , Platform as a Service , and Data as a Service products. The team works in partnership ( our puppet repo is public! And yes, you can contribute to it! ) with the larger Wikimedia volunteer community to manage these environments.  Candidates should be comfortable communicating in public and asynchronous ways with volunteers and developers from around the world. You’ll work remotely with a full-time distributed team, with members spread between Europe and North America, and need to overlap (UTC-5 to UTC+1) working hours.  Some examples of the type of work you’ll...

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST Summary Join the Wikimedia Foundation in our ambitious project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge. We are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance. As the Senior Financial Analyst on the team, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of our revenue channels and grants programs and provide analytical insight into the financial data for senior executives, managers, and program owners. Your data-driven work supports our Foundation’s vision of a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. You will provide globally distributed teams across multiple continents with insightful analysis, planning and reporting support. You will support the Foundation’s goal of becoming a model for financial planning, analysis and reporting across the Wikimedia Movement by standardizing, improving and...

Director of Engineering, Developer Experience Summary The Director of Engineering, Developer Experience is accountable for the Developer Experience Group in the Wikimedia Foundation and is an active participant in the strategic decision making for the Product and Technology department and across the Wikimedia movement. The Developer Experience Group includes Release Engineering, Cloud Services, Technical Documentation, and Quality & Test Engineering teams. This role shares responsibility with the Director of Product for Developer Experience to develop and execute a holistic strategy for Developer Experience in collaboration with other engineering teams, product management, and the volunteer technical contributor community. The teams in this group develop and deliver software, services, and processes that build and sustain our engineering culture and foster improved collaboration. This role is a people management role responsible for completion of technical objectives...

Technical Program Manager (Contract) Summary We are looking for a Technical Program Manager to join our team, reporting to the Manager of Technical Program Management in the Product and Technology department. As a Technical Program Manager, you will work across multiple cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, ambitious programs at the Foundation. We are looking for someone who will become a trusted partner and a key member of our teams for a portfolio of short term projects, who will work across technical and non-technical teams, stakeholders, and the community to deliver outstanding work. This person should foster a shared understanding of goals and commitments across teams and stakeholder groups with different styles and expectations. You are responsible for: Facilitating healthy stakeholder groups Facilitating dialogue and meetings across engineering teams and stakeholders to support shared understanding of goals, commitments, and desired outcomes...

Summary Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. We are responsible for the entire infrastructure stack, from multiple data centers, through networking and interconnects, to 1000s of servers and the application stack that runs on them. We are a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. We are along the path of transitioning our platform from a monolith to a hybrid microservices architecture and have implemented these microservices on our on-premises Kubernetes platform with an in-house designed deployment pipeline. We’ve adopted the Elastic Stack and Prometheus as our de facto logging and monitoring platforms. We automate the operational tasks with a mix of technologies, mainly Python and Puppet.  We work in the open and document our work on our...

Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. As a Data Engineer, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and expanding the shared data infrastructure that supports insights, research, and new data products, in the Foundation as well as the Wiki Movement. This includes everything from building scalable pipeline infrastructure, and working on the event streaming platform to providing scalable data-serving solutions. We are a fully remote, internationally distributed team. We see each other in person 1-2 times a year during one of our off-sites (the last few have been in places like Berlin, Copenhagen, and New York) or Wikimania , the annual international conference for the Wiki community. Open to candidates located in time zones UTC-8 to UTC+2.  You are responsible for: Building scalable data pipeline infrastructure, libraries and processes using Airflow, Spark, Flink, Kafka Implementing data...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Summary Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Service Operations SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects.   The SRE team at Wikimedia is a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. The SRE Service Operations team focuses on the application layer of our complex infrastructure as well as our developer-facing services. Our stack includes MediaWiki instances running on bare metal, surrounding microservices running on our own Kubernetes platform, an in-house designed deployment pipeline and open source collaboration software (Gerrit, Gitlab and Phabricator). We ❤️automation, and we automate as much as we can using primarily Python, Puppet, and Spicerack (https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-software-spicerack). We work in the open and document our work on...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Summary Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Service Operations SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects.   The SRE team at Wikimedia is a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. The SRE Service Operations team focuses on the application layer of our complex infrastructure as well as our developer-facing services. Our stack includes MediaWiki instances running on bare metal, surrounding microservices running on our own Kubernetes platform, an in-house designed deployment pipeline and open source collaboration software (Gerrit, Gitlab and Phabricator). We ❤️automation, and we automate as much as we can using primarily Python, Puppet, and Spicerack (https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-software-spicerack). We work in the open and document our work on...

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Summary Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Service Operations SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects.   The SRE team at Wikimedia is a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. The SRE Service Operations team focuses on the application layer of our complex infrastructure as well as our developer-facing services. Our stack includes MediaWiki instances running on bare metal, surrounding microservices running on our own Kubernetes platform, an in-house designed deployment pipeline and open source collaboration software (Gerrit, Gitlab and Phabricator). We ❤️automation, and we automate as much as we can using primarily Python, Puppet, and Spicerack (https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-software-spicerack). We work in the open and document our work on...