Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (Backend): Developing and maintaining high-volume, reliable data feeds and infrastructure for Wikimedia Enterprise with an accent on cloud platform services, distributed event processing, and infrastructure reliability. Focus on designing scalable services, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating in a globally distributed team.

Location: Remote, ideally located in UTC+0 to UTC+2 time zones

Salary: $141,352–$175,725 per year (US-based applicants)

Company

The hirify.global is a nonprofit organization operating Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects, focused on enabling free access and contribution to knowledge worldwide.

What you will do

• Develop and improve Wikimedia Enterprise’s infrastructure and data feeds
• Plan and execute the long-term engineering roadmap in collaboration with product teams
• Maintain reliability and support new feature deployments for high-usage commercial data feeds
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues and system outages
• Design scalable new services and participate in incident response
• Foster cross-team collaboration and share best practices for software engineering and infrastructure reliability

Requirements

• Location: Ideally based in UTC+0 to UTC+2 time zones
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and distributed event systems like Kafka
• Proficiency in Node.js, Go, and scripting languages (Python, Bash, Ruby)
• Strong Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills
• Ability to work independently in a globally distributed team
• Strong English language skills

Nice to have

• Open source contributions
• Experience with non-cloud hosted infrastructure
• Startup and remote work experience
• Fluency in additional languages

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first organization with staff in 40+ countries
• Competitive and equitable salary adjusted by location
• Inclusive and diverse workplace valuing equity and accessibility
• Support for accommodations during the hiring process