Software Engineering Internship Program (2025)

Location: Remote (US) Duration: 4 months (start in late February 2025) Hours: 40 hrs/week paid experience Application Deadline: All interested applicants must apply by December 6, 2024. The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia – one of the most popular websites in the world, accessed by over 1.8 billion unique devices every month. It is the only non-profit in the top 50 websites, supported by a community of millions of individual donors around the world. We are looking for graduates, non-graduates, or those seeking a career change who are interested in developing software engineering skills through an immersive “learn on the job” internship program. As an intern, you will be embedded into an engineering team within our Product and Technology departments and assigned a primary project with clear deliverables. Alongside your manager and dedicated mentor, you will learn the inner workings of our open source code that helps to create “a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge”. You will work with software that serves over half a billion page views per day through Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects). The outcome of your work will impact how all people everywhere discover, share, and contribute to free knowledge. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to learn about various departments at the Foundation and connect with the wider volunteer movement and community. Successful candidates must be able to commit to a four month, 40hr/week internship which will fall between late February to late June 2025. This role is 100% remote, and in some cases there may be potential opportunities to participate in in-person events to meet other fellow interns and teams. As we form our internship cohort, we are looking for candidates who possess: Basic experience with at least one back end or front end programming language (e.g PHP, Javascript) OR an interest in cybersecurity and/or privacy. Basic experience with databases. Basic experience with at least one scripting language. Ability to work independently and be resourceful in solving problems. Ability to stay accountable to deliverable requirements deadlines. Effective and inclusive communication skills with diverse cultural and language communities. Willingness to learn, a positive attitude, and empathy. A sense of curiosity and hunger to learn. The ability to flourish in a highly transparent and collaborative environment. A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access to global education.

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. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.