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Advancement
Senior Partnerships Manager, Technology Partnerships
Remote
The Sr. Strategic Partnerships Manager will play a crucial role in forming and deepening partnerships with the largest reusers of Wikimedia content (both Wikimedia Enterprise customers and largest prospective customers) and serve as their primary point of contact at WMF. The Sr. Strategic Partnerships Manager’s main focus will be leveraging partnerships with the largest reusers of Wikimedia content to advocate for the values and needs of the Wikimedia Movement while ensuring these partners have a positive experience working with the Foundation. To achieve this, they will also closely collaborate with internal WMF teams to identify opportunities to unlock reciprocal value from content reuse partnerships, increase the sustainability of the Wikimedia content lifecycle, and inform strategic decision-making and prioritization across the organization.
Senior Major Gift Officer
Remote
The Senior Major Gift Officer is a critical part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s fundraising team, focused on raising major gifts and planned gifts for the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment. The Senior Major Gift Officer will report to and work closely with the Senior Manager of Major Gifts & Planned Giving to develop and execute major giving fundraising strategies. They manage a dynamic portfolio of major gift prospects, serving as one of our front-line major gifts fundraisers. Succeeding in this environment requires comfort with both highly personalized cultivation strategies for individual donors in their portfolio as well as email outreach to a broad array of donors at scale.
Communications
Movement Communications Specialist
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a Movement Communications Specialist with a deep understanding of multilingual and multicultural storytelling, digital content creation, and community building. Reporting to the Manager, Movement Communications, you will be part of the Movement Communications team within the larger Communications Department. The Movement Communications team works to build trust and shared understanding between the Wikimedia Foundation and the over 300,000 Wikimedia volunteers and affiliate members around the world. Through this role, you will work on collaborative projects with movement members and Foundation teams tell the story of our collective work, connecting it to the mission and celebrating contributions towards its success.
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Product & Technology
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
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.
Senior Software Engineer (Security)
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity team and build new security features to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role, working alongside a team of engineers and product managers to design and implement new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.
Senior UX Prototyper (Contract)
Remote
The Product Design team at the Wikimedia Foundation is responsible for building and maintaining the user experience for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. The team requires a UX Prototyper for a four month coverage. The Wikimedia Foundation’s Product Design team is looking for an experienced UX Prototyper to support the Moderator Tools team, who works on improving Wikimedia’s content moderation processes for users with extended rights. This person will contribute to a key project prioritized by the Moderator Tools team in this year’s annual plan: designing and building high-fidelity, code-based prototypes to explore and validate workflows for the Moderator Homepage.
Director of Data
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, is seeking a deeply technical, outcome-oriented Director of Data to lead our work across data engineering, search, experimentation, and data-related site reliability engineering (SRE). Wikipedia is a top-ten website that serves audiences in over 300 languages and reaches over a billion people each month. Our data systems power everything from product analytics and machine learning to product features, community tools, and public datasets used by researchers worldwide. In this role, you’ll be accountable for shipping reliable, privacy-respecting data products and platforms and for maintaining a high technical bar of how we design, build, operate, and evolve them in the open.
Please note: We will only consider hiring within UTC-8 to UTC+3 due to the geographical location of the team.
Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the team supporting the Wikidata Platform — the structured data backbone of Wikimedia projects and a key part of the global open knowledge ecosystem. You’ll help scale and sustain the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and related platform services that power tools, features, communities, and research efforts across Wikimedia projects and beyond. This role combines backend engineering and operations ownership. You’ll implement high-scale, production-grade services while ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability. Working closely with the technical and product leads, you’ll contribute to shaping the future of how the world queries and interacts with structured, linked data.
Staff Database Administrator
Remote
We’re hiring a Staff Database Administrator to support and protect the sum of all human knowledge, shared by Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Much of that knowledge is stored using MariaDB, and therefore we’re looking for someone with a strong expertise in designing, operating and optimizing relational (SQL) database infrastructure at large scale (MariaDB and other MySQL derivatives in particular), to support and scale the technology behind Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects—some of the most visited websites on the internet.
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a staff software engineer to join the Product Department and work on various infrastructure projects. In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment, where we value teamwork and close collaboration to achieve our goals. Engineers at the Wikimedia Foundation get to work on technology that truly makes a global impact — powering Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, which serve billions of pageviews every month across hundreds of languages. It’s a rare opportunity to contribute to one of the largest knowledge-sharing platforms in the world, and to help protect free access to information for everyone, everywhere.
Senior Software Engineer – Trust & Safety
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for the software engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity Team. In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment, where we value teamwork and close collaboration to achieve our goals. Engineers at the Wikimedia Foundation get to work on technology that truly makes a global impact — powering Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, which serve billions of pageviews every month across hundreds of languages. It’s a rare opportunity to contribute to one of the largest knowledge-sharing platforms in the world, and to help protect free access to information for everyone, everywhere.
Site Reliability Engineering Manager
Remote
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our SRE team, reporting to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering. As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the engineers developing our infrastructure and supporting the services that depend on it, used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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Values
We are in this mission together
We do great work and improve
We welcome everyone who shares our Vision and Values
We listen and share with curiosity
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitment
We trust our personal and organizational accountability
We envision a world in which every single person can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe knowledge belongs to everyone, and in order to empower people from diverse backgrounds to participate in the collaborative creation of knowledge, we need to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we support and an inclusive culture of belonging that embraces the potential of our diversity.
We believe in co-creating safe, respectful and collaborative work spaces. We aspire to generate a sense of belonging by understanding each and everyone’s differences, contexts and experiences. Through our actions, we ensure that the staff at the Foundation has a healthy work environment where they can flourish.
We acknowledge diversity as a core value that is essential to fulfilling our mission.
We are an equal opportunity employer and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. This enables us to attract, develop, and retain amazing talent.
We are committed to cherishing our differences, and putting people first. We seek to foster a creative environment that unleashes innovative solutions toward building a more inclusive and equitable hiring and retention process. This commitment starts at the top of our organization and moves through every level of hiring from managers to individual contributors. We strive to ensure excellence in our work by building this path together.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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.
United States Benefits and Perks
Health Care Benefits
Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for employees and their eligible families.
New Parent Leave
We provide a total of 16 weeks of paid new parent leave, plus an additional 8 weeks of paid pregnancy leave.
Wellness Reimbursement Program
We provide $450 per quarter up to $1,800.00 a year for reimbursement for staff wellness expenses, such as gym fees, educational expenses, and more!
Professional Development Program
We offer reimbursement of conferences, college/university classes, online programs, and books related to work that supports the Wikimedia Foundation.
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) retirement plan with matched contributions up to 4% of annual salary.
Time Off
Generous paid time off policy which includes: vacation days, holidays, sick leave, and volunteer days.
Pre-tax Savings Plans
For health care, child care, elder care, public transport, and parking expenses. Includes an employer funded HSA option.
Disability & Life Insurance
Long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program.
Equipment Stipend
Equipment including a laptop, monitor, plus a one-time $600 stipend to cover any additional needs to make sure you have the best work from home experience.
*Please note that for remote roles located outside of the U.S., we defer to our EOR (Employer of Record) to ensure alignment with local labor laws.
Current Hiring Locations
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in 40+ countries.
Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay.
We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.
Our non-US based employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).
Compensation Philosophy
Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture.
In compliance with local legislation within the US, we post the anticipated annual pay range for each position for applicants 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.
Applicant Privacy Policy
The Wikimedia Foundation (“Wikimedia“) values your trust and is committed to the responsible management, use and protection of personal information. This Applicant Privacy Policy (“Policy“) describes our practices regarding the information that we collect in connection to your application for a job or internship with Wikimedia.
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