Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

Engineering Manager - Platform Engineering

Summary

Love Wikipedia and its sibling projects? The Wikimedia Foundation is an inclusive employer, and we are looking for experienced engineering management to join our team, reporting to engineering leadership in Technology and Product Engineering.

We’re committed to making knowledge available to everyone globally. This is an opportunity to do good while improving what we think is the best place on the internet. You know how to build a sustainable culture, showing empathy for users and employees, a collaborative mindset, and data-informed systems thinking. You are passionate about growing people, helping software engineers achieve their career goals while also creating amazing opportunities for them to flourish and improve technically.

In this role, you will work in a distributed remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach as we build fully open source software. You are a proactive and collaborative partner with product management, design, quality & test engineering, technical program management, and community relations. You will manage highly skilled engineers, who ship quality software used by over a billion users, empowering them to do their best work.

Travel is not currently required due to the pandemic. During normal non-pandemic times, some travel is expected, usually 3-4 times per year.

You are responsible for:

• Fostering a supportive team environment, ensuring diverse voices are heard
• Guiding team members with structured development techniques
• Participating in hiring considerate of diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Partnering with peers on cross-team delivery and radiating organizational updates
• Facilitating product technical strategy and roadmap setting with software engineers and technical product management
• Coaching engineers in the art and science of software engineering and evolvable software architecture
• Supervising budget and staffing, including leading personal development conversations
• Managing one or more teams of software engineers focused on delivering to the needs of the team roadmaps

Skills and Experience:

• Expertise in consumer-facing internet technology for large and diverse audiences
• Good working knowledge of APIs, API guidelines and API management principles
• History of developing high productivity engineering teams
• History of growing and developing your engineering teams, people and practices
• 3+ years of experience in an engineering leadership role
• BS/MS/Ph.D in Computer Science or other relevant technical field or the equivalent in work experience

Qualities that are important to us:

• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• Clear communication in both synchronous and asynchronous channels
• Commitment to the mission of the organization and our values
• Commitment to our guiding principles
• Ability to disagree in a respectful manner and yet work towards a solution even when you disagree
• Good at asynchronous communication
• Solutions-focused. The Wikimedia ecosystem is complex, resources are limited, and our guiding principles are ambitious. We want you to work to find solutions embracing these factors with your team
• Possess a growth mindset with ability to identify additional skills, knowledge, and/or expertise required and the drive to develop themselves where needed

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Experience building API platforms with your teams
• Experience with service based and streaming architectures
• Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress). We grow and care for MediaWiki and Wikimedia specific services. MediaWiki is an open source, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript web application that powers Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation websites. It has been incrementally developed for over 15 years to become a richly featured wiki engine and the basis for hundreds of exten