Job Description
Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Software Engineer to join the MediaWiki Interfaces team. MediaWiki is the open-source platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects - impacting hundreds of millions of Wikipedia users across the globe. Our team owns the web API and other integration interfaces of MediaWiki, enabling other teams to create features that allows users to access, edit, and consume knowledge efficiently and reliably. This role offers a chance to work on large-scale, mission-driven software while deepening your technical expertise and contributing to systems used globally.
You’ll collaborate with other engineers and product managers to improve performance, reliability and the responsible adoption of our APIs. You will be responsible for: Designing, developing, and maintaining key parts of the MediaWiki stack; Writing clean, well-documented, and maintainable code; Participating in code reviews, design discussions, and technical planning; Investigating and resolving production issues with support from other engineers; Contributing to the adoption and advocacy of API-first development, and influencing best practices in system design, SLOs/SLAs, and OpenAPI Specification; Contributing to improving observability (metrics, logging, monitoring) and reliability of our systems. Collaborating with the Product team and the Wikimedia community to ensure technical solutions meet user needs. Working with other engineers to improve the development workflow
About Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects.