Jobs at Wikimedia Foundation

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Senior Software Engineer Software Engineer Staff Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer (Privacy)SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER (NORTHERN & WESTERN EUROPE)

Software Engineer

RemoteremoteFrom $15/yr

Overview Software Engineer, MediaWiki Interfaces Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Software Engineer to join the MediaWiki Interfaces team. MediaWiki is the open-source platform that powers Wikipedia and its sister projects – impacting hundreds of millions of Wikipedia users across the globe. Our team owns the web API and other integration interfaces of MediaWiki, enabling other teams to create features that allows users to access, edit, and consume knowledge efficiently and reliably. The MediaWiki page has more information on the kind of work the group undertakes. This role offers a chance to work on large-scale, mission-driven software while deepening your technical expertise and contributing to systems used globally. You’ll collaborate with other engineers and product managers to improve performance, reliability and the responsible adoption of our APIs. Important: We are a fully remote team. Your working hours will need to overlap with UTC-4 to UTC+2 time zones to be

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Staff Software Engineer

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Overview Staff Software Engineer Summary Wikimedia Enterprise is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager. As the Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and executing on the long-term engineering strategy in collaboration with the product team. You will contribute heavily to the high impact challenges behind innovating, building, and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. In this role, you will foster cross team collaboration where necessary to address business goals, keep the team moving quickly by designing and implementing necessary tools and services, and guide the team on best practices for software engineering and infrastructure reliability. Wikimedia Enterprise is a new, revenue-generating product that provides fast, comprehensive, reliable, and secure data ingestion for organizations that wish to repurpose Wikimedia/Wikipedia content in third party environments. Wikimedia Enter

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Senior Software Engineer

Not specifiedFrom $15/yr

Overview Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager. As the Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and executing on the long-term engineering strategy in collaboration with the product team. You will contribute heavily to the high impact challenges behind innovating, building, and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. In this role, you will foster cross team collaboration where necessary to address business goals, keep the team moving quickly by designing and implementing necessary tools and services, and guide the team on best practices for software engineering and infrastructure reliability. Wikimedia Enterprise is a new, revenue-generating product that provides fast, comprehensive, reliable, and secure data ingestion for organizations that wish to repurpose Wikimedia/Wikipedia content in third party environments. Wikimedia Enterprise aims to impr

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Senior Software Engineer (Privacy)

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Make the internet a better place for free knowledge. Advancement Senior Program Officer (Northern & Western Europe) Remote The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The Foundation operates one of the world’s top five websites and has global reach and impact. At the core of the projects are volunteers who curate the knowledge that the world has come to rely on. The Community Resources team is the primary funding function of the Wikimedia Foundation ensuring that we support the Affiliates and volunteer contributors of the Wikimedia Movement by offering institutional and individual funding to help achieve the Movement’s goals. To support the movement’s commitment to Knowledge Equity, the team prioritizes proactive outreach to communities that structures of power and privilege have left out.The Senior Program Officer will implement the regional funding programs serving Wikimedian communities in Northern & Western Europe. Senior

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Senior Software Engineer

RemoteremoteFrom $14/yr

Overview Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the team supporting the Wikidata Platform — the structured data backbone of Wikimedia projects and a key part of the global open knowledge ecosystem. You’ll help scale and sustain the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and related platform services that power tools, features, communities, and research efforts across Wikimedia projects and beyond. This role combines backend engineering and operations ownership. You’ll implement high-scale, production-grade services while ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability. Working closely with the technical and product leads, you’ll contribute to shaping the future of how the world queries and interacts with structured, linked data. Important: We are a fully remote team. Your working hours will need to overlap with UTC+1 to UTC-5 time zones to accommodate members of your team around the world. Being 14:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC, the team’s overlapping hours.

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SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER (NORTHERN & WESTERN EUROPE)

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Overview SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER (NORTHERN & WESTERN EUROPE) Location: Remote and must be based in a country within the Northern & Western Europe region Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization supporting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The Foundation operates one of the world’s top five websites and has global reach and impact. At the core of the projects are volunteers who curate the knowledge that the world has come to rely on. The Community Resources team is the primary funding function of the Wikimedia Foundation ensuring that we support the Affiliates and volunteer contributors of the Wikimedia Movement by offering institutional and individual funding to help achieve the Movement’s goals. To support the movement’s commitment to Knowledge Equity, the team prioritizes proactive outreach to communities that structures of power and privilege have left out. The Senior Program Officer will implement the regional funding programs serving Wikimedian communitie

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