Job Description

As a Senior Data Engineer for our Data Platform, you will shape the future of how Wikimedia’s vast data ecosystem serves both our internal teams and the global community. You will help drive the Data Platform Engineering team’s effort to unify data systems across the Wikimedia Foundation to deliver scalable solutions that support internal and external platform users and the open knowledge movement. Develop scalable, robust infrastructure and processes using tools such as Airflow, Spark, and Kafka. Implement systems to detect and address potential data issues promptly. Assist in designing and implementing solutions to track and manage data across pipelines. Contribute to the design and improvement of the shared data platform, enabling critical use cases such as product analytics, bot detection, and image classification. Identify and implement improvements in system reliability, maintainability, and performance.

About Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects.

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