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posted_at: 14 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (Database) to join our SRE team to build, optimize and support the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopædia to millions of people around the globe. Wikipedia and its sister projects are a globally distributed architecture powered strictly by Free and Open Source software. The stack has MediaWiki at its core and... MariaDB as its data store, surrounded by an ecosystem
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (Database) to join our SRE team to build, optimize and support the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopædia to millions of people around the globe. Wikipedia and its sister projects are a globally distributed architecture powered strictly by Free and Open Source software. The stack has MediaWiki at its core and... MariaDB as its data store, surrounded by an ecosystem of microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go and Java.
The Wikimedia community continuously generates text content in the form of new articles, revisions and discussions. As part of our team you would have the opportunity to solve the storage, scaling, access and backup challenges that Wikipedias’ scale provides.
We currently use self-hosted MariaDB as our main RDBMS. Our goal is configuring and managing the database infrastructure in a way that maximizes the service uptime for Wikimedia projects’ users while at the same time simplifying the operational processes, automating repeatable tasks and applying industry best practices.
We are a globally distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. If you find what we do interesting, if you are up to the challenge of improving the reliability and delivery of one of the Internet’s top 10 websites, and you enjoy the idea of working in a remote-first role, we may be the right place for you.
You are responsible for:
• Operate and improve the RDBMS systems serving Wikimedia projects
• Respond to common database issues, following documented procedures
• Collaborate with SRE and other teams across the organization to ensure their specific database needs are met on an ongoing basis
• Perform day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia’s public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)
• Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools
• Monitor systems, services and service clusters, optimize performance and resource utilization
• Participate in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure
• Share our values and work in accordance with them
Skills and Experience:
• 2+ years experience in a DBA role as part of a team
• 3+ years experience with Linux in a production environment
• Knowledge and experience of (Free and Open Source) RDBMS (preferably MariaDB or MySQL) administration (understanding of and experience with replication is essential) and support, debugging query performance and schema design
• Comfortable with shell and at least one of the scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
• Passion for automating tasks and processes
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Experience working with or as a part of SRE/Operations/DevOps teams
• Experience with NoSQL products (Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/redis, MySQL) - MediaWiki familiarity would be great!
• Developing Free and Open Source software, or being part of an open-source community
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$82,540 to US$129,000 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or (415) 839-6885 Show more details...
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (Database) to join our SRE team to build, optimize and support the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopædia to millions of people around the globe. Wikipedia and its sister projects are a globally distributed architecture powered strictly by Free and Open Source software. The stack has MediaWiki at its core and... MariaDB as its data store, surrounded by an ecosystem of microservices in PHP, NodeJS, Python, Go and Java.
The Wikimedia community continuously generates text content in the form of new articles, revisions and discussions. As part of our team you would have the opportunity to solve the storage, scaling, access and backup challenges that Wikipedias’ scale provides.
We currently use self-hosted MariaDB as our main RDBMS. Our goal is configuring and managing the database infrastructure in a way that maximizes the service uptime for Wikimedia projects’ users while at the same time simplifying the operational processes, automating repeatable tasks and applying industry best practices.
We are a globally distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. If you find what we do interesting, if you are up to the challenge of improving the reliability and delivery of one of the Internet’s top 10 websites, and you enjoy the idea of working in a remote-first role, we may be the right place for you.
You are responsible for:
• Operate and improve the RDBMS systems serving Wikimedia projects
• Respond to common database issues, following documented procedures
• Collaborate with SRE and other teams across the organization to ensure their specific database needs are met on an ongoing basis
• Perform day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia’s public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)
• Implement and utilize configuration management and deployment tools
• Monitor systems, services and service clusters, optimize performance and resource utilization
• Participate in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure
• Share our values and work in accordance with them
Skills and Experience:
• 2+ years experience in a DBA role as part of a team
• 3+ years experience with Linux in a production environment
• Knowledge and experience of (Free and Open Source) RDBMS (preferably MariaDB or MySQL) administration (understanding of and experience with replication is essential) and support, debugging query performance and schema design
• Comfortable with shell and at least one of the scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
• Passion for automating tasks and processes
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Experience working with or as a part of SRE/Operations/DevOps teams
• Experience with NoSQL products (Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• Experience with LAMP stack technologies (PHP/HHVM, memcached/redis, MySQL) - MediaWiki familiarity would be great!
• Developing Free and Open Source software, or being part of an open-source community
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$82,540 to US$129,000 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or (415) 839-6885 Show more details...
via LinkedIn
posted_at: 5 days agoschedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Abstract Wikipedia team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product software engineer, you will be responsible for software engineering for our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get... to write open source code for collaborative experiences
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Abstract Wikipedia team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product software engineer, you will be responsible for software engineering for our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get... to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting over a billion users, and you get to do it at a place that believes we're all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.
You are responsible for:
• Improving the Wikipedia product experience
• Iterating on new products and features through collaboration with designers and product managers
• Writing multilingual and accessible JavaScript, CSS, and PHP
• Creating and maintaining internet APIs with server scripting languages
• Instrumenting components to monitor feature and quality characteristics
• Leveraging caching and persistence technologies
Skills and experience:
• 5+ years related professional experience in functional programming or OOP
• Experience building user-friendly features and software components with good performance
• Focused software engineering: you enjoy writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing architectural tradeoffs
Qualities that are important to us:
• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• An emphasis on communicating clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels
Additionally, we'd love it if you have this:
• Fluency in one or more regional languages in Africa, Asia, or Latin America
• Experience developing for markets in Africa, Asia, or Latin America
• Practical skills with Vue.js or React
• Project work in data science, machine learning, AI (especially on natural language)
• A history of open source contribution
• Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field (or equivalent certification)
• Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress). We grow and care for MediaWiki and Wikimedia specific services. MediaWiki is an open source, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript web application that powers Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation websites. It has been incrementally developed for over 15 years to become a richly featured wiki engine and the basis for hundreds of extensions and skins, and has a vibrant volunteer community. Our services layers utilize a number of technologies.
The following team is actively seeking candidates:
• Abstract Wikipedia: We are building a new programming system, Wikifunctions, where a community will be able to write and arrange code functions in a multilingual way with multiple programming languages (Python and JavaScript to start, as well as with a low-code / no-code GUI). This will be a production grade function-as-a-service platform for Wikimedia volunteers to utilize as we work toward the larger initiative of symbolically generating natural language in all of Wikimedia's supported languages for Wikipedia. We are a dedicated group of diverse folks who build our values of feminism, decolonialism, and psychological safety into our everyday work. We work in a collaborative, high trust, high-empathy environment
The Wikimedia Foundation is...
...the nonprofit organization that hosts and 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, free of interference. We host 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 financial support 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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$101,161 to US$157,200 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885 Show more details...
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Abstract Wikipedia team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product software engineer, you will be responsible for software engineering for our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get... to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting over a billion users, and you get to do it at a place that believes we're all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.
You are responsible for:
• Improving the Wikipedia product experience
• Iterating on new products and features through collaboration with designers and product managers
• Writing multilingual and accessible JavaScript, CSS, and PHP
• Creating and maintaining internet APIs with server scripting languages
• Instrumenting components to monitor feature and quality characteristics
• Leveraging caching and persistence technologies
Skills and experience:
• 5+ years related professional experience in functional programming or OOP
• Experience building user-friendly features and software components with good performance
• Focused software engineering: you enjoy writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing architectural tradeoffs
Qualities that are important to us:
• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• An emphasis on communicating clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels
Additionally, we'd love it if you have this:
• Fluency in one or more regional languages in Africa, Asia, or Latin America
• Experience developing for markets in Africa, Asia, or Latin America
• Practical skills with Vue.js or React
• Project work in data science, machine learning, AI (especially on natural language)
• A history of open source contribution
• Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field (or equivalent certification)
• Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress). We grow and care for MediaWiki and Wikimedia specific services. MediaWiki is an open source, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript web application that powers Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation websites. It has been incrementally developed for over 15 years to become a richly featured wiki engine and the basis for hundreds of extensions and skins, and has a vibrant volunteer community. Our services layers utilize a number of technologies.
The following team is actively seeking candidates:
• Abstract Wikipedia: We are building a new programming system, Wikifunctions, where a community will be able to write and arrange code functions in a multilingual way with multiple programming languages (Python and JavaScript to start, as well as with a low-code / no-code GUI). This will be a production grade function-as-a-service platform for Wikimedia volunteers to utilize as we work toward the larger initiative of symbolically generating natural language in all of Wikimedia's supported languages for Wikipedia. We are a dedicated group of diverse folks who build our values of feminism, decolonialism, and psychological safety into our everyday work. We work in a collaborative, high trust, high-empathy environment
The Wikimedia Foundation is...
...the nonprofit organization that hosts and 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, free of interference. We host 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 financial support 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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$101,161 to US$157,200 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885 Show more details...
via Built In
schedule_type: Full-timework_from_home: 1
Senior Software Engineer - Wikimedia Enterprise
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
Senior Software Engineer - Wikimedia Enterprise
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 improve the user experience for Wikimedia/Wikipedia readers beyond our own websites; increase the reach and discoverability of Wikimedia/Wikipedia content; and improve awareness and ease of attribution and verifiability of Wikimedia/Wikipedia content by the organizations that reuse our content the most. You can learn more about the project in WIRED and Insider.
We are a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment, and embrace technologies. We act sort of like a startup within the Wikimedia Foundation: we build quickly, deploy often, and our work has a very high impact on the global knowledge ecosystem. If you are up to the challenge of working on something fast paced, of creating services that will revolutionize the systems distributing our knowledge for billions of people across the world, and enjoy the idea of working with a globally distributed team, you might be just the person we need.
You are responsible for:
• Bringing your creativity to improve our current infrastructure
• Being a key part of planning our future technical roadmap
• Maintaining and improving the reliability of highly used commercial data feeds
• Supporting new code/feature deployments
• Troubleshooting, debugging and following-up on emerging issues in our application stack and its surroundings
• Being the interface between the Wikimedia Foundation’s SRE team and Wikimedia Enterprise
• Assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale
• Incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia Enterprise’s production infrastructure
• Sharing our values and work in accordance with them
Skills and Experience:
• 3+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team
• Being comfortable working in a semi-ambiguous environment, similar to that of a startup
• Experience in supporting complex web applications running on Amazon Web Services or other comparable cloud platforms
• Experience working with Kafka or similar distributed event processing systems
• Experience working with Nodejs and Go applications
• Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes), and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
• Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks
• Comfortable with shell and scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (e.g. Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent in related work experience
Qualities that are important to us:
• Track record of open source contributions is highly appreciated
• Experience with non-cloud hosted infrastructure
• Startup experience is a plus
• Remote work experience with a highly distributed team
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Fluency in languages other than English
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$101,161 to US$157,200 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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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 improve the user experience for Wikimedia/Wikipedia readers beyond our own websites; increase the reach and discoverability of Wikimedia/Wikipedia content; and improve awareness and ease of attribution and verifiability of Wikimedia/Wikipedia content by the organizations that reuse our content the most. You can learn more about the project in WIRED and Insider.
We are a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment, and embrace technologies. We act sort of like a startup within the Wikimedia Foundation: we build quickly, deploy often, and our work has a very high impact on the global knowledge ecosystem. If you are up to the challenge of working on something fast paced, of creating services that will revolutionize the systems distributing our knowledge for billions of people across the world, and enjoy the idea of working with a globally distributed team, you might be just the person we need.
You are responsible for:
• Bringing your creativity to improve our current infrastructure
• Being a key part of planning our future technical roadmap
• Maintaining and improving the reliability of highly used commercial data feeds
• Supporting new code/feature deployments
• Troubleshooting, debugging and following-up on emerging issues in our application stack and its surroundings
• Being the interface between the Wikimedia Foundation’s SRE team and Wikimedia Enterprise
• Assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale
• Incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia Enterprise’s production infrastructure
• Sharing our values and work in accordance with them
Skills and Experience:
• 3+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team
• Being comfortable working in a semi-ambiguous environment, similar to that of a startup
• Experience in supporting complex web applications running on Amazon Web Services or other comparable cloud platforms
• Experience working with Kafka or similar distributed event processing systems
• Experience working with Nodejs and Go applications
• Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (ECS, Kubernetes), and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics and logging)
• Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks
• Comfortable with shell and scripting languages used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (e.g. Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
• Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent in related work experience
Qualities that are important to us:
• Track record of open source contributions is highly appreciated
• Experience with non-cloud hosted infrastructure
• Startup experience is a plus
• Remote work experience with a highly distributed team
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Fluency in languages other than English
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$101,161 to US$157,200 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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posted_at: 5 days agoschedule_type: Contractorwork_from_home: 1
Summary
The Wikimedia Fundraising team runs annual fundraising campaign in Spain. The team requires a linguist experienced in translation and translation review/proofreading to help translate from English to Spanish. The linguist will also help proofread banner and email content...
This will be an ongoing contract working on translating campaigns 2-10 hours a week. Remote position open to people in Spain.
You are responsible for:
Respond to requests
Summary
The Wikimedia Fundraising team runs annual fundraising campaign in Spain. The team requires a linguist experienced in translation and translation review/proofreading to help translate from English to Spanish. The linguist will also help proofread banner and email content...
This will be an ongoing contract working on translating campaigns 2-10 hours a week. Remote position open to people in Spain.
You are responsible for:
Respond to requests for translation assistance (Translation, Translation Review, or Proofreading) on an ad-hoc basis and submit completed work and/or tasks by mutually agreed upon deadlines. We will request your personal feedback on our messages (discussing cultural and idiomatic nuances).
• Translation [Primary Task]
• The Linguist will be the go-to translator for all online fundraising content in Spanish-LATAM. Including but not limited to: email and banner fundraising appeals, payment forms, donor support pages, etc.
• Revise reviewer edits
• A Localization best practice is that all content that is translated must undergo an additional translation review by someone different than the original translator (i.e. by a language service agency or native speaking colleague in the Wikimedia movement). This QA ensures quality and catches any potential spelling, grammar, punctuation, or translation errors. The linguist will thus need to revise the suggested edits made by the reviewer, and decide whether to accept/incorporate them, or whether to reject them.
• Final proofreading of content after it has been coded, before going live
• To surface any errors (spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.) that could have been made during the coding process
• Copywriting [Optional/Potential]
• Depending on linguist copywriting experience and our team needs, the linguist may be invited to participate in contributing content or test ideas for the email & banner campaigns. This is entirely optional and participation is up to the discretion of the linguist
Skills and Experience:
• Native Spanish-Spain speaker with excellent verbal and written English skills
• Proven, extensive English to Spanish-Spain translation and translation review experience (minimum 5 years experience)
Qualities that are important to us:
• Highly dependable and punctual
• Able to work productively in a flexible environment
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Experience in the Wikipedia editing community or with the movement
• Copywriting experience
About the Wikimedia FoundationThe 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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated hourly pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$30 per hour to US$50 per hour with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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The Wikimedia Fundraising team runs annual fundraising campaign in Spain. The team requires a linguist experienced in translation and translation review/proofreading to help translate from English to Spanish. The linguist will also help proofread banner and email content...
This will be an ongoing contract working on translating campaigns 2-10 hours a week. Remote position open to people in Spain.
You are responsible for:
Respond to requests for translation assistance (Translation, Translation Review, or Proofreading) on an ad-hoc basis and submit completed work and/or tasks by mutually agreed upon deadlines. We will request your personal feedback on our messages (discussing cultural and idiomatic nuances).
• Translation [Primary Task]
• The Linguist will be the go-to translator for all online fundraising content in Spanish-LATAM. Including but not limited to: email and banner fundraising appeals, payment forms, donor support pages, etc.
• Revise reviewer edits
• A Localization best practice is that all content that is translated must undergo an additional translation review by someone different than the original translator (i.e. by a language service agency or native speaking colleague in the Wikimedia movement). This QA ensures quality and catches any potential spelling, grammar, punctuation, or translation errors. The linguist will thus need to revise the suggested edits made by the reviewer, and decide whether to accept/incorporate them, or whether to reject them.
• Final proofreading of content after it has been coded, before going live
• To surface any errors (spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc.) that could have been made during the coding process
• Copywriting [Optional/Potential]
• Depending on linguist copywriting experience and our team needs, the linguist may be invited to participate in contributing content or test ideas for the email & banner campaigns. This is entirely optional and participation is up to the discretion of the linguist
Skills and Experience:
• Native Spanish-Spain speaker with excellent verbal and written English skills
• Proven, extensive English to Spanish-Spain translation and translation review experience (minimum 5 years experience)
Qualities that are important to us:
• Highly dependable and punctual
• Able to work productively in a flexible environment
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Experience in the Wikipedia editing community or with the movement
• Copywriting experience
About the Wikimedia FoundationThe 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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated hourly pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$30 per hour to US$50 per hour with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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posted_at: 10 days agoschedule_type: Contractor
Summary
The Wikimedia foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit... and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support
Summary
The Wikimedia foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit... and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects. Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, free knowledge and free content, and social and technical aspects related to these topics.
The first conference was organized by volunteers in 2005 and since then the event has grown in size and scale. Due to the pandemic, the event in 2020 due to happen in Bangkok was canceled. In 2022 Wikimania took place as a Hybrid event - with participants online and also at satellite events across the world.
In 2023, Wikimania will return to being largely in person in Singapore, with some hybrid elements.
Remote position in Singapore, Indonesia, and Bangladesh, will need to be on-site the week of the event. 6 month Contract from April 2023 until August 2023.
You are responsible for:
• Supporting the Scholarships Sub Committee of volunteers with the facilitation and coordination of scholarships awarded to individuals for attending Wikimania 2023, in Singapore.
• Communication with successful scholars on requirements needed for travel, visas and accommodation.
• Communication and coordination with scholars on volunteer role opportunities at Wikimania.
• Working with the WMF grants team on checking eligibility and tracking the scholarship process.
• Answering any ad hoc questions with guidance from the Senior manager and the Scholarship subcommittee.
• Writing and sending out a ‘Wikimania Guide for Attendees’ to give essential and helpful information about when they arrive, Singapore customs and culture and their time at the event.
• Attendance at Wikimania 2023 to support scholars while they are at the event with queries and questions. Dates are August 14th to 19th 2023, in Singapore.
• Post event evaluation, reporting and review of the scholarship process
Skills and Experience:
• 3-5 years of experience with event coordination
• Experience working directly with a diverse set of volunteers across different regions
• Experience managing using of tools such as email campaign platforms and records systems
• Ability to interact with people from all walks of life, good customer or audience facing skills
• Experience with booking and coordinating a high volume of travel and communications
• Working fluency in English
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Understanding of the Singapore events and conference industry
• Mission Driven: You believe in the power of inclusive communication and movement building to make free knowledge accessible to everyone.
• Openness and Curiosity: We work on new and interesting problems in public and collaborative ways.
• Resilience: Working together for outcomes, willingness to change course when warranted and motivated by high standards.
• Positivity: Sharing a culture of constructive criticism and respect.
• Team-oriented: Natural inclination for team collaboration and for helping colleagues succeed
• Intentionally inclusive: Strong personal values related to participation, equity, and diversity in global movements
Qualities that are important to us:
• Mission Driven: You believe in the power of inclusive communication and movement building to make free knowledge accessible to everyone.
• Openness and Curiosity: We work on new and interesting problems in public and collaborative ways.
• Resilience: Working together for outcomes, willingness to change course when warranted and motivated by high standards.
• Positivity: Sharing a culture of constructive criticism and respect.
• Team-oriented: Natural inclination for team collaboration and for helping colleagues succeed
• Intentionally inclusive: Strong personal values related to participation, equity, and diversity in global movements
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated hourly pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$29 per hour to US$45 per hour with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
More information
Wikimedia Foundation
Applicant Privacy Policy
News from across the Wikimedia movement
Wikimedia 2030
Our Commitment to Equity
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The Wikimedia foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit... and share from the Wikimedia sites. Above all, we support the communities of volunteers around the world who edit, improve, and add knowledge across Wikimedia projects. Wikimania is the Wikimedia movement's annual conference, organized by volunteers and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. Topics of presentations and discussions include Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, other wikis, open-source software, free knowledge and free content, and social and technical aspects related to these topics.
The first conference was organized by volunteers in 2005 and since then the event has grown in size and scale. Due to the pandemic, the event in 2020 due to happen in Bangkok was canceled. In 2022 Wikimania took place as a Hybrid event - with participants online and also at satellite events across the world.
In 2023, Wikimania will return to being largely in person in Singapore, with some hybrid elements.
Remote position in Singapore, Indonesia, and Bangladesh, will need to be on-site the week of the event. 6 month Contract from April 2023 until August 2023.
You are responsible for:
• Supporting the Scholarships Sub Committee of volunteers with the facilitation and coordination of scholarships awarded to individuals for attending Wikimania 2023, in Singapore.
• Communication with successful scholars on requirements needed for travel, visas and accommodation.
• Communication and coordination with scholars on volunteer role opportunities at Wikimania.
• Working with the WMF grants team on checking eligibility and tracking the scholarship process.
• Answering any ad hoc questions with guidance from the Senior manager and the Scholarship subcommittee.
• Writing and sending out a ‘Wikimania Guide for Attendees’ to give essential and helpful information about when they arrive, Singapore customs and culture and their time at the event.
• Attendance at Wikimania 2023 to support scholars while they are at the event with queries and questions. Dates are August 14th to 19th 2023, in Singapore.
• Post event evaluation, reporting and review of the scholarship process
Skills and Experience:
• 3-5 years of experience with event coordination
• Experience working directly with a diverse set of volunteers across different regions
• Experience managing using of tools such as email campaign platforms and records systems
• Ability to interact with people from all walks of life, good customer or audience facing skills
• Experience with booking and coordinating a high volume of travel and communications
• Working fluency in English
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Understanding of the Singapore events and conference industry
• Mission Driven: You believe in the power of inclusive communication and movement building to make free knowledge accessible to everyone.
• Openness and Curiosity: We work on new and interesting problems in public and collaborative ways.
• Resilience: Working together for outcomes, willingness to change course when warranted and motivated by high standards.
• Positivity: Sharing a culture of constructive criticism and respect.
• Team-oriented: Natural inclination for team collaboration and for helping colleagues succeed
• Intentionally inclusive: Strong personal values related to participation, equity, and diversity in global movements
Qualities that are important to us:
• Mission Driven: You believe in the power of inclusive communication and movement building to make free knowledge accessible to everyone.
• Openness and Curiosity: We work on new and interesting problems in public and collaborative ways.
• Resilience: Working together for outcomes, willingness to change course when warranted and motivated by high standards.
• Positivity: Sharing a culture of constructive criticism and respect.
• Team-oriented: Natural inclination for team collaboration and for helping colleagues succeed
• Intentionally inclusive: Strong personal values related to participation, equity, and diversity in global movements
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated hourly pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$29 per hour to US$45 per hour with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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posted_at: 26 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Location: Washington, D.C
Summary...
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America to join our Global Advocacy Team. As the Lead Public Policy Specialist, you will be responsible for increasing Wikimedia’s ability to influence public policy debates primarily in the United States and Canada, and to promote a legal framework that supports free knowledge. In this role, you will expand Wikimedia’s public
Location: Washington, D.C
Summary...
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America to join our Global Advocacy Team. As the Lead Public Policy Specialist, you will be responsible for increasing Wikimedia’s ability to influence public policy debates primarily in the United States and Canada, and to promote a legal framework that supports free knowledge. In this role, you will expand Wikimedia’s public policy network and relationships, deepen the team’s collaboration with affiliates and volunteers in the Wikimedia Movement, be in charge of direct outreach to lawmakers and agencies, engage in public policy processes, and monitor current developments in the US to help the Public Policy Team promote people’s ability to participate in knowledge online.
You are responsible for:
• Increase Wikimedia’s ability to shape public policy for the internet and free knowledge in North America
• Build Wikimedia’s profile in Washington DC and foster the Foundation’s visibility among lawmakers, Congressional staff, and within relevant agencies.
• Build relationships with public policy advocacy allies in Canada and collaborate with Wikimedia community members in Canada in educating Canadian policymakers about the importance of protecting free knowledge communities.
• Independently and in collaboration with other members of the Global Advocacy Team and in concert with external partners, influence legislative, regulatory, and other discussions on key issues.
• Develop proposals, including educational, legislative and regulatory initiatives, to support free knowledge.
• Monitor public policy developments and proposed laws that affect freedom of expression, privacy, and participation in knowledge, so the Team can determine how they may impact the Wikimedia projects and users.
• Build Wikimedia's network and relationships with civil society, industry, and other relevant stakeholders engaged in public policy in the US.
• Support the regional and international Wikimedia communities in their advocacy work on critical public policy issues and educational campaigns.
• With the other members of Wikimedia’s Global Advocacy Team, refine and implement the Wikimedia Foundation’s policy positions and international advocacy strategy, particularly in the context of Transatlantic and Inter-American policy dialogues and treaty processes.
• Write about how different policy issues affect people’s ability to participate in free knowledge and the Wikimedia projects specifically.
• Present our policy initiatives to lawmakers and regulators or other influencers; brief and educate key Foundation and Wikimedia movement constituencies.
• Advise other teams in the Wikimedia Foundation on public policy developments relating to the accomplishment of the Foundation’s mission.
Skills and Experience:
• Graduate degree in law, public policy or related fields and excellent academic credentials. (Equivalent experience will be considered.)
• 4-5 years of experience working or engaging with U.S. Congress and other North American governmental bodies.
• Experience working on FISA, surveillance, and consumer privacy legislation.
• Experience working on issues related to Section 230.
• Demonstrated understanding of intellectual property issues.
• Successful track record of developing and executing advocacy campaigns, particularly focused on U.S. Congress or relevant agencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail. Ability to act as a spokesperson for Wikimedia on matters of public policy.
Qualities that are important to us:
• Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between international human rights standards, U.S. law, self-regulation, and emerging “soft law”.
• Experience working on public policy issues related to disinformation.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed, and to work or travel on weekends when necessary.
• Experience working with a remote team, handling competing priorities.
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Experience working in government, advocacy groups, or think tanks.
• A good understanding of open source, free culture, free software, or online communities.
• Familiarity with the way that US law and regulation interacts with the regulation of other countries, especially on the topics of free expression and internet law.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$117,437 to US$179,986 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
More information
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Summary...
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America to join our Global Advocacy Team. As the Lead Public Policy Specialist, you will be responsible for increasing Wikimedia’s ability to influence public policy debates primarily in the United States and Canada, and to promote a legal framework that supports free knowledge. In this role, you will expand Wikimedia’s public policy network and relationships, deepen the team’s collaboration with affiliates and volunteers in the Wikimedia Movement, be in charge of direct outreach to lawmakers and agencies, engage in public policy processes, and monitor current developments in the US to help the Public Policy Team promote people’s ability to participate in knowledge online.
You are responsible for:
• Increase Wikimedia’s ability to shape public policy for the internet and free knowledge in North America
• Build Wikimedia’s profile in Washington DC and foster the Foundation’s visibility among lawmakers, Congressional staff, and within relevant agencies.
• Build relationships with public policy advocacy allies in Canada and collaborate with Wikimedia community members in Canada in educating Canadian policymakers about the importance of protecting free knowledge communities.
• Independently and in collaboration with other members of the Global Advocacy Team and in concert with external partners, influence legislative, regulatory, and other discussions on key issues.
• Develop proposals, including educational, legislative and regulatory initiatives, to support free knowledge.
• Monitor public policy developments and proposed laws that affect freedom of expression, privacy, and participation in knowledge, so the Team can determine how they may impact the Wikimedia projects and users.
• Build Wikimedia's network and relationships with civil society, industry, and other relevant stakeholders engaged in public policy in the US.
• Support the regional and international Wikimedia communities in their advocacy work on critical public policy issues and educational campaigns.
• With the other members of Wikimedia’s Global Advocacy Team, refine and implement the Wikimedia Foundation’s policy positions and international advocacy strategy, particularly in the context of Transatlantic and Inter-American policy dialogues and treaty processes.
• Write about how different policy issues affect people’s ability to participate in free knowledge and the Wikimedia projects specifically.
• Present our policy initiatives to lawmakers and regulators or other influencers; brief and educate key Foundation and Wikimedia movement constituencies.
• Advise other teams in the Wikimedia Foundation on public policy developments relating to the accomplishment of the Foundation’s mission.
Skills and Experience:
• Graduate degree in law, public policy or related fields and excellent academic credentials. (Equivalent experience will be considered.)
• 4-5 years of experience working or engaging with U.S. Congress and other North American governmental bodies.
• Experience working on FISA, surveillance, and consumer privacy legislation.
• Experience working on issues related to Section 230.
• Demonstrated understanding of intellectual property issues.
• Successful track record of developing and executing advocacy campaigns, particularly focused on U.S. Congress or relevant agencies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail. Ability to act as a spokesperson for Wikimedia on matters of public policy.
Qualities that are important to us:
• Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between international human rights standards, U.S. law, self-regulation, and emerging “soft law”.
• Experience working on public policy issues related to disinformation.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed, and to work or travel on weekends when necessary.
• Experience working with a remote team, handling competing priorities.
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Experience working in government, advocacy groups, or think tanks.
• A good understanding of open source, free culture, free software, or online communities.
• Familiarity with the way that US law and regulation interacts with the regulation of other countries, especially on the topics of free expression and internet law.
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in more than 50 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$117,437 to US$179,986 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
Position Summary...
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America to join our Global Advocacy Team. As the Lead Public Policy Specialist, you will be responsible for increasing Wikimedia’s
The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally.
Position Summary...
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America to join our Global Advocacy Team. As the Lead Public Policy Specialist, you will be responsible for increasing Wikimedia’s ability to influence public policy debates primarily in the United States and Canada, and to promote a legal framework that supports free knowledge. In this role, you will expand Wikimedia’s public policy network and relationships, deepen the team’s collaboration with affiliates and volunteers in the Wikimedia Movement, be in charge of direct outreach to lawmakers and agencies, engage in public policy processes, and monitor current developments in the US to help the Public Policy Team promote people’s ability to participate in knowledge online.
Duties and Responsibilities
– Increase Wikimedia’s ability to shape public policy for the internet and free knowledge in North America
– Build Wikimedia’s profile in Washington DC and foster the Foundation’s visibility among lawmakers, Congressional staff, and within relevant agencies.
– Build relationships with public policy advocacy allies in Canada and collaborate with Wikimedia community members in Canada in educating Canadian policymakers about the importance of protecting free knowledge communities.
– Independently and in collaboration with other members of the Global Advocacy Team and in concert with external partners, influence legislative, regulatory, and other discussions on key issues.
– Develop proposals, including educational, legislative and regulatory initiatives, to support free knowledge.
– Monitor public policy developments and proposed laws that affect freedom of expression, privacy, and participation in knowledge, so the Team can determine how they may impact the Wikimedia projects and users.
– Build Wikimedia’s network and relationships with civil society, industry, and other relevant stakeholders engaged in public policy in the US.
– Support the regional and international Wikimedia communities in their advocacy work on critical public policy issues and educational campaigns.
– With the other members of Wikimedia’s Global Advocacy Team, refine and implement the Wikimedia Foundation’s policy positions and international advocacy strategy, particularly in the context of Transatlantic and Inter-American policy dialogues and treaty processes.
– Write about how different policy issues affect people’s ability to participate in free knowledge and the Wikimedia projects specifically.
– Present our policy initiatives to lawmakers and regulators or other influencers; brief and educate key Foundation and Wikimedia movement constituencies.
– Advise other teams in the Wikimedia Foundation on public policy developments relating to the accomplishment of the Foundation’s mission.
Skills and Competencies
– Graduate degree in law, public policy or related fields and excellent academic credentials. (Equivalent experience will be considered.)
– 4-5 years of experience working or engaging with U.S. Congress and other North American governmental bodies.
– Experience working on FISA, surveillance, and consumer privacy legislation.
– Experience working on issues related to Section 230.
– Demonstrated understanding of intellectual property issues.
– Successful track record of developing and executing advocacy campaigns, particularly focused on U.S. Congress or relevant agencies.
– Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail. Ability to act as a spokesperson for Wikimedia on matters of public policy.
Qualities that are important to us:
– Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between international human rights standards, U.S. law, self-regulation, and emerging “soft law”.
– Experience working on public policy issues related to disinformation.
– Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed, and to work or travel on weekends when necessary.
– Experience working with a remote team, handling competing priorities.
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
– Experience working in government, advocacy groups, or think tanks.
– A good understanding of open source, free culture, free software, or online communities.
– Familiarity with the way that US law and regulation interacts with the regulation of other countries, especially on the topics of free expression and internet law.
How to Apply
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Position Summary...
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Lead Public Policy Specialist for North America to join our Global Advocacy Team. As the Lead Public Policy Specialist, you will be responsible for increasing Wikimedia’s ability to influence public policy debates primarily in the United States and Canada, and to promote a legal framework that supports free knowledge. In this role, you will expand Wikimedia’s public policy network and relationships, deepen the team’s collaboration with affiliates and volunteers in the Wikimedia Movement, be in charge of direct outreach to lawmakers and agencies, engage in public policy processes, and monitor current developments in the US to help the Public Policy Team promote people’s ability to participate in knowledge online.
Duties and Responsibilities
– Increase Wikimedia’s ability to shape public policy for the internet and free knowledge in North America
– Build Wikimedia’s profile in Washington DC and foster the Foundation’s visibility among lawmakers, Congressional staff, and within relevant agencies.
– Build relationships with public policy advocacy allies in Canada and collaborate with Wikimedia community members in Canada in educating Canadian policymakers about the importance of protecting free knowledge communities.
– Independently and in collaboration with other members of the Global Advocacy Team and in concert with external partners, influence legislative, regulatory, and other discussions on key issues.
– Develop proposals, including educational, legislative and regulatory initiatives, to support free knowledge.
– Monitor public policy developments and proposed laws that affect freedom of expression, privacy, and participation in knowledge, so the Team can determine how they may impact the Wikimedia projects and users.
– Build Wikimedia’s network and relationships with civil society, industry, and other relevant stakeholders engaged in public policy in the US.
– Support the regional and international Wikimedia communities in their advocacy work on critical public policy issues and educational campaigns.
– With the other members of Wikimedia’s Global Advocacy Team, refine and implement the Wikimedia Foundation’s policy positions and international advocacy strategy, particularly in the context of Transatlantic and Inter-American policy dialogues and treaty processes.
– Write about how different policy issues affect people’s ability to participate in free knowledge and the Wikimedia projects specifically.
– Present our policy initiatives to lawmakers and regulators or other influencers; brief and educate key Foundation and Wikimedia movement constituencies.
– Advise other teams in the Wikimedia Foundation on public policy developments relating to the accomplishment of the Foundation’s mission.
Skills and Competencies
– Graduate degree in law, public policy or related fields and excellent academic credentials. (Equivalent experience will be considered.)
– 4-5 years of experience working or engaging with U.S. Congress and other North American governmental bodies.
– Experience working on FISA, surveillance, and consumer privacy legislation.
– Experience working on issues related to Section 230.
– Demonstrated understanding of intellectual property issues.
– Successful track record of developing and executing advocacy campaigns, particularly focused on U.S. Congress or relevant agencies.
– Excellent written and verbal communication skills and attention to detail. Ability to act as a spokesperson for Wikimedia on matters of public policy.
Qualities that are important to us:
– Demonstrated understanding of the relationship between international human rights standards, U.S. law, self-regulation, and emerging “soft law”.
– Experience working on public policy issues related to disinformation.
– Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed, and to work or travel on weekends when necessary.
– Experience working with a remote team, handling competing priorities.
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
– Experience working in government, advocacy groups, or think tanks.
– A good understanding of open source, free culture, free software, or online communities.
– Familiarity with the way that US law and regulation interacts with the regulation of other countries, especially on the topics of free expression and internet law.
How to Apply
Please apply here Show more details...
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Wikimedia Foundation...
Wikimedia envisions a world where the sum total of human knowledge is available to everyone.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other free educational projects, serves as the hub of a global movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of all human knowledge with
Search for the Vice President of Global Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation...
Wikimedia envisions a world where the sum total of human knowledge is available to everyone.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other free educational projects, serves as the hub of a global movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of all human knowledge with the world. Wikipedia, the most prominent of the Wikimedia projects, comprises more than 55 million articles in more than 300 languages and is viewed more than 15 billion times each month from around the world.
Wikimedia’s advocacy work is focused on championing everyone’s right to free knowledge online. The Foundation protects users’ privacy and speech, and educates governments and policymakers about the importance of the free and open internet. Wikimedia believes that regardless of location or circumstance, everyone has the right to seek and share knowledge. The Foundation protects the right to speak and learn freely, shaping public policy that opens access to free online knowledge around the globe. Wikimedia defends free expression, and stands up for its users, including helping contributors respond to legal threats relating to their work on Wikimedia projects. The Foundation supports community voices, maintaining the legal protections around the world to allow volunteer contributors to take the lead on editorial decisions. And Wikimedia speaks up for free knowledge and access, increasing awareness of Wikipedia beyond North America and Europe to expand global knowledge participation.
During a pivotal time of change, the Wikimedia Foundation seeks a Vice President (VP) of Global Advocacy. A newly created role, the VP of Global Advocacy will provide strategic leadership and direction to a currently three-person and growing team of public policy and advocacy experts on the Public Policy team. The Public Policy team works to establish and defend a legal and regulatory landscape that is essential to Wikipedia and other free educational projects, and to enable the Foundation to advance its mission amidst political, technological, and societal challenges. The VP will be an experienced public policy professional who can run campaigns on crucial issues for the Foundation’s mission, such as intermediary liability, copyright, and access to knowledge. The immediate focus of the Public Policy team is to raise Wikimedia’s profile and influence in debates that affect the ability of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects to function as sources of free knowledge. A member of the Legal Department, the VP will report to the General Counsel, and work closely with outside digital rights advocates and Wikimedia affiliates around the world.
The VP of Global Advocacy will address a number of essential functions including driving the development of the global advocacy strategy, providing vision, structure and strategy to a high-performing and growing Public Policy team, clarifying and delegating operational planning, and negotiating advocacy objectives within the organization’s strategy. The VP will recruit and manage diverse, exceptional global talent, oversee career development and engagement of the team, and keep the General Counsel, Executive Director, and other members of the executive team and Board of Trustees current on key policy trends and important developments. The VP is responsible for leading proactive plans to influence public policy in key areas, developing strategic plans to effectively advance the policy agenda in the face of challenges, and developing proposals, including legislative and regulatory initiatives, to support free knowledge consistent with the Wikimedia Guiding Principles. In addition, the VP will increase public engagement in Wikimedia’s policy positions, build and coordinate activism on critical issues, oversee advocacy communications strategy, and work collaboratively with other members of the Public Policy team and with other teams across the Wikimedia Foundation.
How to Apply
Screening of complete applications will begin immediately and continue until the completion of the search process. For more details, including the full position profile and to submit inquiries, nominations, referrals, or resumes with cover letters please see the website of Isaacson, Miller, Wikimedia’s search partners, at www.imsearch.com/7942.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org.
U.S. Benefits & Perks* ****
• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
• The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, babysitting, continuing education and much more.
• The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary.
• Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 22 additional paid holidays, including the last week of the year.
• Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
• For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program.
• Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses.
• Remote and flexible work schedules available.
• Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax.
• Paid travel to Wikimedia Foundation events all around the world.
• Equipment including a laptop, monitor, plus a one-time stipend to cover any additional needs to make sure you have the best work experience.
• Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people.
• Please note that for remote roles located outside of the United States, we defer to our PEO*** ***to ensure alignment with local labor laws.
Wikimedia Foundation focuses on Internet, Education, Open Source, Semantic Search, and Nonprofits. Their company has offices in San Francisco and Remote. They have a large team that's between 201-500 employees. To date, Wikimedia Foundation has raised $79.865M of funding; their latest round was closed on September 2019.
You can view their website at http://wikimediafoundation.org or find them on LinkedIn Show more details...
Wikimedia Foundation...
Wikimedia envisions a world where the sum total of human knowledge is available to everyone.
The Wikimedia Foundation, the San Francisco-based nonprofit home of Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other free educational projects, serves as the hub of a global movement of hundreds of thousands of contributors collaborating to collect and share the sum of all human knowledge with the world. Wikipedia, the most prominent of the Wikimedia projects, comprises more than 55 million articles in more than 300 languages and is viewed more than 15 billion times each month from around the world.
Wikimedia’s advocacy work is focused on championing everyone’s right to free knowledge online. The Foundation protects users’ privacy and speech, and educates governments and policymakers about the importance of the free and open internet. Wikimedia believes that regardless of location or circumstance, everyone has the right to seek and share knowledge. The Foundation protects the right to speak and learn freely, shaping public policy that opens access to free online knowledge around the globe. Wikimedia defends free expression, and stands up for its users, including helping contributors respond to legal threats relating to their work on Wikimedia projects. The Foundation supports community voices, maintaining the legal protections around the world to allow volunteer contributors to take the lead on editorial decisions. And Wikimedia speaks up for free knowledge and access, increasing awareness of Wikipedia beyond North America and Europe to expand global knowledge participation.
During a pivotal time of change, the Wikimedia Foundation seeks a Vice President (VP) of Global Advocacy. A newly created role, the VP of Global Advocacy will provide strategic leadership and direction to a currently three-person and growing team of public policy and advocacy experts on the Public Policy team. The Public Policy team works to establish and defend a legal and regulatory landscape that is essential to Wikipedia and other free educational projects, and to enable the Foundation to advance its mission amidst political, technological, and societal challenges. The VP will be an experienced public policy professional who can run campaigns on crucial issues for the Foundation’s mission, such as intermediary liability, copyright, and access to knowledge. The immediate focus of the Public Policy team is to raise Wikimedia’s profile and influence in debates that affect the ability of Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects to function as sources of free knowledge. A member of the Legal Department, the VP will report to the General Counsel, and work closely with outside digital rights advocates and Wikimedia affiliates around the world.
The VP of Global Advocacy will address a number of essential functions including driving the development of the global advocacy strategy, providing vision, structure and strategy to a high-performing and growing Public Policy team, clarifying and delegating operational planning, and negotiating advocacy objectives within the organization’s strategy. The VP will recruit and manage diverse, exceptional global talent, oversee career development and engagement of the team, and keep the General Counsel, Executive Director, and other members of the executive team and Board of Trustees current on key policy trends and important developments. The VP is responsible for leading proactive plans to influence public policy in key areas, developing strategic plans to effectively advance the policy agenda in the face of challenges, and developing proposals, including legislative and regulatory initiatives, to support free knowledge consistent with the Wikimedia Guiding Principles. In addition, the VP will increase public engagement in Wikimedia’s policy positions, build and coordinate activism on critical issues, oversee advocacy communications strategy, and work collaboratively with other members of the Public Policy team and with other teams across the Wikimedia Foundation.
How to Apply
Screening of complete applications will begin immediately and continue until the completion of the search process. For more details, including the full position profile and to submit inquiries, nominations, referrals, or resumes with cover letters please see the website of Isaacson, Miller, Wikimedia’s search partners, at www.imsearch.com/7942.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org.
U.S. Benefits & Perks* ****
• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
• The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, babysitting, continuing education and much more.
• The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary.
• Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 22 additional paid holidays, including the last week of the year.
• Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
• For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program.
• Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses.
• Remote and flexible work schedules available.
• Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax.
• Paid travel to Wikimedia Foundation events all around the world.
• Equipment including a laptop, monitor, plus a one-time stipend to cover any additional needs to make sure you have the best work experience.
• Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people.
• Please note that for remote roles located outside of the United States, we defer to our PEO*** ***to ensure alignment with local labor laws.
Wikimedia Foundation focuses on Internet, Education, Open Source, Semantic Search, and Nonprofits. Their company has offices in San Francisco and Remote. They have a large team that's between 201-500 employees. To date, Wikimedia Foundation has raised $79.865M of funding; their latest round was closed on September 2019.
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Summary
If you're a current law student or recent law school graduate passionate about free knowledge and open source issues, applying to our legal fellowship program can provide an immersive in-house experience with specific education and training in the areas of Internet law and free knowledge organizations...
Description
The Foundation faces a myriad of legal issues ranging from complex copyright questions to international freedom of speech
Summary
If you're a current law student or recent law school graduate passionate about free knowledge and open source issues, applying to our legal fellowship program can provide an immersive in-house experience with specific education and training in the areas of Internet law and free knowledge organizations...
Description
The Foundation faces a myriad of legal issues ranging from complex copyright questions to international freedom of speech issues to mobile development to internal corporate compliance. Because of the wide array of legal issues, the fellows will be assigned challenging projects based on their particular interests and strengths. These projects range from researching various legal questions to drafting licensing agreements to developing internal and external policies.
Each fellow will receive individualized projects that they will be expected to spearhead under the supervision and guidance of an attorney from the Legal Department.
Fellows will work closely with their supervising attorney - attending and participating in internal and external meetings, collaborating on projects, receiving feedback and support, and generally learning about the practical dimensions of practicing law in-house at a web-based company.
When the opportunity exists, the Legal Department will work with a fellow's university to facilitate earning academic credits and/or receiving funding for the fellow's time at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Requirements
• High energy for and commitment to the Wikimedia Foundation's free knowledge mission, including an interest in free culture issues, open source software, Creative Commons licensing, etc.
• A very good sense of humor and the ability to excel in a fast-paced, multitasking environment that demands fast turn-around.
• Intellectual curiosity and flexibility that makes them enjoy tackling difficult and ambiguous problems in creative ways. Students with strong research backgrounds are preferred.
• Experience working with large online user communities (or at least the desire to). Students with experience with wikis or Wikimedia projects are preferred.
• The ability to flourish in a highly transparent and collaborative environment and work on a team with diverse demographic and cultural characteristics. Multilingual students (especially German, French, and/or Italian) are a plus!
• Excellent writing skills that can be adapted to communicate complex legal concepts to a large audience with varying (or no) backgrounds in law. Students with experience and/or coursework in drafting agreements and/or policies are preferred.
• Completed coursework in some or all of the following areas of law: internet law, freedom of speech (domestic and international), intellectual property, contract drafting, international law, privacy, data security, and/or licensing. While coursework in these areas is not required, students who have experience in these areas are heavily preferred.
Pluses
• Being a Wikimedian! (Please share your username in your cover letter.)
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or 1 (415) 839-6885.
More information
Wikimedia Foundation
Applicant Privacy Policy
News from across the Wikimedia movement
Wikimedia 2030
Our Commitment to Equity
This is Wikimedia Foundation
Facts Matter
Our Projects
Our Tech Stack Show more details...
If you're a current law student or recent law school graduate passionate about free knowledge and open source issues, applying to our legal fellowship program can provide an immersive in-house experience with specific education and training in the areas of Internet law and free knowledge organizations...
Description
The Foundation faces a myriad of legal issues ranging from complex copyright questions to international freedom of speech issues to mobile development to internal corporate compliance. Because of the wide array of legal issues, the fellows will be assigned challenging projects based on their particular interests and strengths. These projects range from researching various legal questions to drafting licensing agreements to developing internal and external policies.
Each fellow will receive individualized projects that they will be expected to spearhead under the supervision and guidance of an attorney from the Legal Department.
Fellows will work closely with their supervising attorney - attending and participating in internal and external meetings, collaborating on projects, receiving feedback and support, and generally learning about the practical dimensions of practicing law in-house at a web-based company.
When the opportunity exists, the Legal Department will work with a fellow's university to facilitate earning academic credits and/or receiving funding for the fellow's time at the Wikimedia Foundation.
Requirements
• High energy for and commitment to the Wikimedia Foundation's free knowledge mission, including an interest in free culture issues, open source software, Creative Commons licensing, etc.
• A very good sense of humor and the ability to excel in a fast-paced, multitasking environment that demands fast turn-around.
• Intellectual curiosity and flexibility that makes them enjoy tackling difficult and ambiguous problems in creative ways. Students with strong research backgrounds are preferred.
• Experience working with large online user communities (or at least the desire to). Students with experience with wikis or Wikimedia projects are preferred.
• The ability to flourish in a highly transparent and collaborative environment and work on a team with diverse demographic and cultural characteristics. Multilingual students (especially German, French, and/or Italian) are a plus!
• Excellent writing skills that can be adapted to communicate complex legal concepts to a large audience with varying (or no) backgrounds in law. Students with experience and/or coursework in drafting agreements and/or policies are preferred.
• Completed coursework in some or all of the following areas of law: internet law, freedom of speech (domestic and international), intellectual property, contract drafting, international law, privacy, data security, and/or licensing. While coursework in these areas is not required, students who have experience in these areas are heavily preferred.
Pluses
• Being a Wikimedian! (Please share your username in your cover letter.)
About the Wikimedia Foundation
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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or 1 (415) 839-6885.
More information
Wikimedia Foundation
Applicant Privacy Policy
News from across the Wikimedia movement
Wikimedia 2030
Our Commitment to Equity
This is Wikimedia Foundation
Facts Matter
Our Projects
Our Tech Stack Show more details...
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Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services...
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the manager of Cloud Services. As the Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining the platforms and services for the Wikimedia Technology Community. In this role, you will maintain, upgrade and add new services to our existing cloud, data,
Location: Remote (Anywhere)
Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services...
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the manager of Cloud Services. As the Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining the platforms and services for the Wikimedia Technology Community. In this role, you will maintain, upgrade and add new services to our existing cloud, data, and kubernetes infrastructure.
Come work within the Technology department at the Wikimedia Foundation! Cloud Services curates environments that host tools and services utilized across Wikimedia projects. A significant portion of edit traffic on Wikipedia for example, is done by community developed tools we host!
Our team maintains Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Data as a Service products. The team works in partnership (our puppet repo is public! And yes, you can contribute to it!) with the larger Wikimedia volunteer community to manage these environments. Candidates should be comfortable communicating in public and asynchronous ways with volunteers and developers from around the world.
You’ll work remotely with a full-time distributed team, with members spread between Europe and North America, and need to overlap (UTC-4 to UTC+2) working hours. Some examples of the type of work you’ll be doing include:
• Expanding the capabilities of our toolforge platform and upgrading kubernetes
• Providing a curated Jupyter notebook environment for data analysis and queries of Wikimedia data
• Upgrading, customizing, and adding new services to Openstack
And the backlog has even more details!
You are responsible for:
• Performing day-to-day operational tasks on Wikimedia’s Cloud Services infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting). Develop and support automation tools and processes in support of these tasks.
• Participating in on-call rotation and support in a 24x7 environment
Skills and Experience:
• Comfortable working and thriving within a Linux ecosystem
• Software development skills in at least one of the following languages: Python, Go, Javascript, and/or Ruby
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field or equivalent in related work experience.
Qualities that are important to us:
• Share our values, appreciate our code of conduct, support our team norms, and work in accordance with all three
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• Support of our users (volunteer and staff developers) using our service offerings
• Passionate about the value of learning and growing together
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Interest in open source software projects and communities
• Utilized configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, and SaltStack
• Experience in designing and operating Ceph or similar distributed storage clusters in production environments
• Built data pipelines and or worked with streaming real time data
• Used Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos, or similar container orchestration platforms
• Operated an elastic computing environment such as OpenStack or Cloudstack
• Operated Open Source database systems like MySQL and Postgres
• Experience in serverless computing environments
• Linux systems troubleshooting and debugging skills
The Wikimedia Foundation is...
...the nonprofit organization that hosts and 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, free of interference. We host 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 financial support 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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or (415) 839-6885.
U.S. Benefits & Perks*
• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
• The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more
• The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary
• Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 22 paid holidays - including the last week of the year.
• Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
• For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
• Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses
• Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
• Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
• Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people
• Please note that for remote roles located outside of the U.S., we defer to our PEO to ensure alignment with local labor laws.
More information
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Wikimedia 2030
Wikimedia Medium Term Plan
Our Commitment to Equity
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Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services...
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the manager of Cloud Services. As the Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining the platforms and services for the Wikimedia Technology Community. In this role, you will maintain, upgrade and add new services to our existing cloud, data, and kubernetes infrastructure.
Come work within the Technology department at the Wikimedia Foundation! Cloud Services curates environments that host tools and services utilized across Wikimedia projects. A significant portion of edit traffic on Wikipedia for example, is done by community developed tools we host!
Our team maintains Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Data as a Service products. The team works in partnership (our puppet repo is public! And yes, you can contribute to it!) with the larger Wikimedia volunteer community to manage these environments. Candidates should be comfortable communicating in public and asynchronous ways with volunteers and developers from around the world.
You’ll work remotely with a full-time distributed team, with members spread between Europe and North America, and need to overlap (UTC-4 to UTC+2) working hours. Some examples of the type of work you’ll be doing include:
• Expanding the capabilities of our toolforge platform and upgrading kubernetes
• Providing a curated Jupyter notebook environment for data analysis and queries of Wikimedia data
• Upgrading, customizing, and adding new services to Openstack
And the backlog has even more details!
You are responsible for:
• Performing day-to-day operational tasks on Wikimedia’s Cloud Services infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting). Develop and support automation tools and processes in support of these tasks.
• Participating in on-call rotation and support in a 24x7 environment
Skills and Experience:
• Comfortable working and thriving within a Linux ecosystem
• Software development skills in at least one of the following languages: Python, Go, Javascript, and/or Ruby
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field or equivalent in related work experience.
Qualities that are important to us:
• Share our values, appreciate our code of conduct, support our team norms, and work in accordance with all three
• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• Support of our users (volunteer and staff developers) using our service offerings
• Passionate about the value of learning and growing together
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
• Interest in open source software projects and communities
• Utilized configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Chef, and SaltStack
• Experience in designing and operating Ceph or similar distributed storage clusters in production environments
• Built data pipelines and or worked with streaming real time data
• Used Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Mesos, or similar container orchestration platforms
• Operated an elastic computing environment such as OpenStack or Cloudstack
• Operated Open Source database systems like MySQL and Postgres
• Experience in serverless computing environments
• Linux systems troubleshooting and debugging skills
The Wikimedia Foundation is...
...the nonprofit organization that hosts and 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, free of interference. We host 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 financial support 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.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or (415) 839-6885.
U.S. Benefits & Perks*
• Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
• The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more
• The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary
• Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 22 paid holidays - including the last week of the year.
• Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
• For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
• Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses
• Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
• Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
• Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people
• Please note that for remote roles located outside of the U.S., we defer to our PEO to ensure alignment with local labor laws.
More information
Wikimedia Foundation
Blog
Wikimedia 2030
Wikimedia Medium Term Plan
Our Commitment to Equity
This is Wikimedia Foundation
Facts Matter
Our Projects
Our Tech Stack Show more details...
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