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Director of Engineering - MediaWiki

Salary

$0.173k - $0.269k

Min Experience

0 years

Location

Anywhere

JobType

Full-time

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About the role

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Director of Engineering for the MediaWiki team. As the Director of Engineering, you will lead a team of engineers responsible for the core MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. You will oversee the technical roadmap, architecture, and development of the MediaWiki platform, ensuring its continued reliability, scalability, and evolution. You will work closely with stakeholders across the Wikimedia movement to understand their needs and priorities, and translate those into an effective engineering strategy. This is a high-impact role that will shape the future of one of the world's most widely used open source software projects.

About the company

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 person can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared understanding of the world and the human experience. We want to unlock that potential.

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