Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Foundations
Wikimedia FoundationBase Salary
$113k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Perform day-to-day operational and DevOps work on Wikimedia’s public-facing infrastructure, including deployment, maintenance, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Implement and use configuration management and deployment tools such as Puppet and Kubernetes.
- Automate installation, configuration, and maintenance of platform services and lead continuous improvement efforts.
- Assist product teams with architectural design and help operate new services at scale.
- Participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation, including incident response, outage diagnosis, and follow-up across production infrastructure.
- Collaborate asynchronously with a global cross-functional team and mentor peers in technical and operational areas.
- Travel 1–2 times per year for in-person events and team meetings.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in an SRE, Operations, or DevOps role.
- Experience with shell scripting and SRE-related scripting languages including Python, Go, Bash, or Ruby, plus configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible.
- Experience designing and managing infrastructure security for large fleets of diverse services and responding technically to security incidents.
- Experience with Linux package management and strong Linux system-level troubleshooting skills.
- Demonstrated history of automating tasks, identifying process gaps, and finding automation opportunities.
- Strong written and verbal English communication skills and the ability to work independently across multiple time zones.
- Experience leading and participating in incident response, post-incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and preventive-measure implementation.
- Preferred experience includes fleet-wide security policies, software supply-chain security, open-source infrastructure security, software security collaboration, credential management, immutable logging and auditing, monitoring and metrics infrastructure, open-source software development, LAMP technologies, MediaWiki, and cross-team SLOs.
Benefits
- Remote-first role in a globally distributed organization.
- Ability and willingness to travel 1–2 times per year for in-person events and team meetings.
- Hiring is currently available in specified U.S. states and countries, with non-U.S. employees hired through a local Employer of Record.
- U.S. annual pay range is $113,082 to $175,725, with location and other individualized factors determining the offer.
Tech Stack
About Wikimedia Foundation
We are the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. We host a technology infrastructure that makes possible billions of monthly visits to Wikipedia. Since 2003, we have supported the hundreds of thousands of volunteer editors who edit, expand, and curate the Wikimedia projects. We equip these volunteers with the most up-to-date tools, ensure connections to Wikipedia are fast, safe, and private, and develop new technology and products to meet the demands of our readers and editors. We provide individuals and organizations around the world with funding to increase the knowledge on Wikipedia. We also undertake legal and advocacy efforts to protect people’s right to free knowledge. We are 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 $11. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. We are a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California.