Desired Skills and Experience

  • Be the performance standard bearer in the Foundation and our communities.
  • Be visible in the performance community and work to influence others and bring learnings to the team.
  • Work together with the other team members to identify areas for performance improvement and the needed solutions.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on performance and a resource to engineering teams across the Foundation.
  • Manage a team of four members, conduct performance reviews, hiring, goal-setting, compensation planning, and career development.
  • Design and develop performance-centric enhancements of Wikimedia systems.
  • Conduct performance reviews of software designs and implementations.
  • Define and manage department budget.
  • Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field.
  • Working on a large, mature, open source project.
  • Contributing to the Wikipedia or Wikimedia project communities.
  • Virtualization technologies.
  • Building and maintaining large-scale server applications.
  • Developing and debugging in Linux (LAMP) environments.
  • Knowledge of PHP, HHVM and JavaScript.
  • Debugging front-end JavaScript web applications in Chrome or Firefox.
  • Linux system administration and automation using shell scripting (bash, ZSH, etc.)
  • Static analysis tools such as Veracode, pfff, PHP-sat, or PHP_CodeSniffer.
  • C/C++ debugging using open source tools like gdb or Valgrind.
  • Operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, or compilers.
  • A recognized expert in performance.
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience.
  • 3+ years of technical leadership experience.
  • 3+ years of experience managing a small engineering team with a minimum of 3 direct reports
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • 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, massages, cooking classes 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 19 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