[Hiring] Director of Engineering @Wikimedia Foundation
Mar 25, 2025 - Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a remote Director of Engineering. 💸 Salary: us$172,976 to us$269,298. 📍Location: USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, India, Brazil, Australia, Estonia, Sweden, Greece, Belgium, Poland, South Africa, Italy, Colombia, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Egypt, Finland, Denmark, Singapore, Czech Republic, Croatia, Israel, Spain, Mexico, United Arab Emirates, Austria, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Peru, Uganda, Uruguay.
Role Description
The Director of Engineering, MediaWiki is accountable for the MediaWiki Engineering Group in the Wikimedia Foundation and is an active participant in the strategic decision making for the Product and Technology department and across the Wikimedia movement. The teams in this group build, maintain, and improve upon MediaWiki, the software platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects, used by hundreds of millions of people each month.
This role involves managing an engineering organization of about 25 including some very experienced Principal engineers and managers. The role reports to the Senior Director of Engineering and shares responsibility with the Director of Product for MediaWiki to iterate and execute on a holistic strategy for MediaWiki in collaboration with other engineering teams, product management, and the volunteer technical contributor community.
You are responsible for:
- Leading a group of teams working to build, maintain, and improve the capabilities of MediaWiki.
- Living and demonstrating our values by fostering a working environment and team relationships aligned in our mission.
- Hiring, coaching, developing, and empowering engineering managers and highly senior individual contributors.
- Engineering delivery of the teams in the MediaWiki Engineering group.
- Collaborating with the Director of Product for MediaWiki on roadmaps and technical strategy.
- Participating with other senior managers & directors across the department to establish strategic plans.
- Participating in organizational development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects.
- Planning, staffing, budgeting, and managing expense priorities within the cost center for MediaWiki Engineering.
- Collaborating and taking joint responsibility with fellow Engineering leaders for production environments and services.
Qualifications
- Experience leading teams that manage software engineering lifecycle processes and services in an organization with 100+ software engineers.
- Experience leading or managing a backend platform organization.
- Experience managing organizational interaction with a community of volunteer technical contributors.
- Experience building and leading diverse, multi-national and remote-first teams.
- Proven success at all stages of the engineering process and product lifecycle.
- Experience with managing managers.
- Ability to travel up to 2-3 times a year.
- Ability to work flexible hours with an organization spread across several time zones.
Requirements
- Know and live our values.
- Experience with large-scale, global developer ecosystems.
- Serve as an ambassador for the Foundation and our movement to donors and the general public.
Benefits
- Competitive, equitable salaries based on skills, experience, and location.
- Remote-first organization with staff members in 40+ countries.
Company Description
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.
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