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