Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA) (allows remote)
Job Description
Wikimedia’s Mobile Web team needs you to optimize and evolve the infrastructure that powers all of our mobile projects. As we enter a world where a mobile majority becomes the norm we need someone who is fearless about taking our development and engineering practices and scaling them for the rest of the organization and code base. You’ll join a mature agile team and enable the whole organization and movement to become mobile proficient at building the largest collection of free and open knowledge that has ever existed.
What you'll do
Write software in multiple languages (PHP, JavaScript, etc) to serve billions of mobile users on a top ten website
Help scale an infrastructure that currently targets 4 billion page views and is steadily rising
Work on meaningful products that make a difference to humanity
Skills Requirements
You shouldKnow the web stack in and out (HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS, etc)
Have multiple years of experience building large scale web infrastructures
Understand how performance is an important part of any website
Have a BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent work experience
You get extra points for
Gaining consensus on an open source project
Standardizing development practices across large organizations
Loving to experiment against the status quoShow us your stuff! Please provide us with information you feel would be useful to us in gaining a better understanding of your technical background and accomplishments. Links to GitHub, your technical blogs, publications, personal projects, etc. are exceptionally useful. We especially appreciate pointers to your best contributions to open source projects.
About Wikimedia Foundation
How to apply
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