Desired Skills and Experience
- Work together with the other team members to identify areas for performance improvement and the needed solutions
- Conduct performance reviews of software designs and implementations
- Be an expert and resource on performance to engineering teams across the Foundation
- Design and develop performance-centric enhancements of Wikimedia systems
- Manage a team of four members, conduct performance reviews, hiring, goal-setting, compensation planning, and career development
- Define and manage team budget
- An expert in performance
- 5+ years of relevant work experience
- 3+ years of technical leadership experience
- 3+ years of experience managing a small team with a minimum of 3 direct reports
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field
- Working on a large, mature, open source project
- 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.)
- C/C++ debugging using open source tools like gdb or Valgrind
- Static analysis tools such as Veracode, pfff, PHP-sat, or PHP_CodeSniffer
- Operating system internals, filesystems, programming language design, or compilers
- Virtualization technologies
- Contributing to the Wikipedia or Wikimedia project communities
- 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
- Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation, and parking expenses
- For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary), and an employee assistance program
- 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 - international staff speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven, and intensely passionate people