Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform
Wikimedia Foundationabout 5 hours ago
Base Salary
$117k - $181k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend systems and APIs for Wikidata's query infrastructure.
- Improve reliability, observability, and automation of the Wikidata Query Service and data pipelines.
- Integrate Wikidata Platform services with other systems and data sources across Wikimedia.
- Collaborate with SRE, data engineers, and product teams to ensure stability and scalability.
- Monitor production systems, respond to operational incidents, and resolve bottlenecks.
- Support platform migrations and system upgrades.
- Contribute to deployment automation, CI/CD workflows, and service instrumentation.
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical planning.
- Document systems and share knowledge with team members and the broader technical community.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer working on distributed systems or data platforms.
- Deep understanding of database and/or knowledge graph representation technologies and standards.
- Proficiency in Java, C++, or other systems languages.
- Experience building and operating production-grade services with SLOs.
- Familiarity with modern observability tools.
- Experience in data processing systems such as graph databases or data processing pipelines.
- Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and communicate clearly.
- A commitment to learning, resilience, and contributing to a mission-driven engineering culture.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering