Software Engineer III, Release Engineering

Software Engineer III, Release Engineering

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a mid-level software engineer to join the Release Engineering Team.

Software engineers on the Release Engineering team build development environments, maintain CI/CD infrastructure, and design tools and processes to support our developer community.

Release Engineering is a geographically distributed remote team of seven people in three time zones.

You are responsible for:

• Deploying Wikipedia and our other wikis
• Maintaining and adding features to our continuous delivery system
• Using Docker, BuildKit, and Kubernetes to enhance our deployment pipeline
• Upgrading and maintaining Release Engineering tools for our large developer community:
• CI/CD infrastructure: Jenkins, Zuul-CI, Docker, GitLab
• Code review: GitLab, Gerrit
• Issue tracking: Phabricator/Phorge
• Deployment tooling: Kubernetes, Helm, and custom tooling written in Python and Go

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related work experience
• Written and verbal English communication skills sufficient for a remote work environment
• Collaboration and consensus-making skills
• Professional experience with systems/DevOps engineering
• Experience with complex software development
• Experience with continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization
• Familiarity with server configuration management software (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, or Puppet)
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform/OpenTofu)

Qualities that are important to us:

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

Being a role model for Wikimedia's values

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
• Experience maintaining other specific software systems we use: Phabricator/Phorge, Jenkins, GitLab, and Gerrit
• Located within UTC+3–UTC-8 time zones

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation 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 all knowledge. We believe 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 make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. 

The Wikimedia Foundation 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 Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable 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 origin, sex, pregnancy or related 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 Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applica