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 steward the developer experience for our developer community.

We build development environments, maintain CI/CD infrastructure, and design tools and processes to support our developer community. We believe in integrity, quality, collaboration, and free and open source software.

Release Engineering is a remote team with seven people spanning nine time zones.

You are responsible for:

• Deploying Wikipedia and our other wikis
• Helping design our continuous delivery system in GitLab
• Using Docker, BuildKit, and Kubernetes to enhance our deployment pipeline
• Stewarding our Phabricator installation
• 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

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related work experience
• Written and verbal English communication skills
• Collaboration and consensus-making skills
• Experience with systems/DevOps engineering and software
• Experience with continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) systems
• Familiarity with server configuration management software (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, or Puppet)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerization

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