Software Engineer III – Release Engineering

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a mid-level software engineer to join the Release Engineering Team.

Software engineers on the Release Engineering team build development environments, maintain CI/CD infrastructure, and design tools and processes to support our developer community.

Release Engineering is a geographically distributed remote team of seven people in three time zones.

You are responsible for:

• Deploying Wikipedia and our other wikis
• Maintaining and adding features to our continuous delivery system
• Using Docker, BuildKit, and Kubernetes to enhance our deployment pipeline
• Upgrading and maintaining Release Engineering tools for our large developer community:
  • CI/CD infrastructure: Jenkins, Zuul-CI, Docker, GitLab
  • Code review: GitLab, Gerrit
  • Issue tracking: Phabricator/Phorge
  • Deployment tooling: Kubernetes, Helm, and custom tooling written in Python and Go

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related work experience
• Written and verbal English communication skills sufficient for a remote work environment
• Collaboration and consensus-making skills
• Professional experience with systems/DevOps engineering
• Experience with complex software development
• Experience with continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) systems
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization
• Familiarity with server configuration management software (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, or Puppet)
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform/OpenTofu)

Qualities that are important to us:

• Professional experience with one or more of the following: Python, Go, PHP
• Experience with Puppet

Being a role model for Wikimedia's values

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Free culture/Free software experience
• Remote work experience
• You are inspired by our guiding principles and our mission
• Familiarity with/involvement in the Wikimedia community
• Experience maintaining other specific software systems we use: Phabricator/Phorge, Jenkins, GitLab, and Gerrit
• Located within UTC+3–UTC-8 time zone