Software Engineer

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to encouraging the growth, development and distribution of free, multilingual, educational content, and to providing the full content of these wiki-based projects to the public free of charge. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, a top-ten internet property.

- Perform day-to-day operational tasks (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting) on many aspects of Wikimedia’s analytics infrastructure - Assist in the research, design, and implementation of Wikimedia analytics infrastructure and services - Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools (specifically puppet, salt) - Coordinate and communicate with other members of the Wikimedia engineering teams - Incident response and diagnosis of system outages or alerts - Write and update internal documentation of systems and processes

- 2+ years of experience in an infrastrucure operations team - Experience with configuration management systems and concepts (examples: puppet, chef, ansible, etc.) - Experience with package management (e.g. Debian, RPM) - Experience maintaining databases (MySQL, PostGRES, Cassandra, etc.) - Experience with the use, maintenance and configuration of monitoring and metrics infrastructure (ganglia, nagios, icinga, graphite, grafana, etc.) - Load testing and capacity assessments - Comfort with shell and scripting languages used in an operations engineering context (Bash, Python, Ruby, etc.) - Ability to work independently as needed, as an effective part of a globally distributed team - Excellent written and oral English skills - B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience - Hands-on experience managing a Big Data cluster: Hadoop, HDFS, Oozie, Spark, Hive, Parquet, Kafka - Familiarity with data warehouse patterns - Knowledge of systems and network security issues and trends - Understanding of the conceptual advantages of Open Source projects and tools - Familiarity with JVM packaging systems (Maven, sbt, Gradle, Archiva, Nexus, etc.) - Experience writing and building C applications - Experience supporting, working and communicating with an online community of volunteers