Website Wikimedia Foundation
Summary
Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a mid-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. We are responsible for the entire infrastructure stack, from multiple data centers, through networking and interconnects, to 1000s of servers and the application stack that runs on them.
We are a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment and embrace new technologies. We are along the path of transitioning our platform from a monolith to a hybrid microservices architecture and have implemented these microservices on our on-premises Kubernetes platform with an in-house designed deployment pipeline. We’ve adopted the Elastic Stack and Prometheus as our de facto logging and monitoring platforms. We automate the operational tasks with a mix of technologies, mainly Python and Puppet.
We work in the open and document our work on our internal task management system (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org) and our technical wiki (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org). Feel free to check out our activities there.
We are avid supporters of open source software. If you have interesting open source contributions, let us know!
If you find what we do interesting and you enjoy the idea of working with a globally distributed team that runs a Top-15 website, we may be the place you’re looking for.
As an engineer in the SRE team you will be involved in defining and running the infrastructure and services that form the base of Wikimedia Foundation projects. This will include frequent work with other members of the SRE team to improve our infrastructure in terms of scalability, high availability, recoverability, monitoring and logging. You will participate in incident response and be oncall. You will also be frequently interacting with people not in SRE, like Security, Release and Software Engineers, who all strive to maintain and make Mediawiki and related software better.
You are responsible for:
- Performing day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia’s public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting
- Implementing and utilizing configuration management and deployment tools (Puppet, Kubernetes)
- Leading continuous improvement, by automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of services on our platform
- Assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale
- Assisting in or leading incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system outages and alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure
- Share our values and work in accordance with them
Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years experience in an SRE/Operations role as part of a team
- Experience with operating highly available infrastructure
- Comfortable with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
- Experience with package management for operating systems (Debian, etc)
- Comfortable with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, TerraForm etc.)
- Past exposure to automation and streamlining of tasks
- Communicative technical English
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- A history of contributing to Open Source projects
- Prior participation in the Wikimedia movement
To apply for this job please visit boards.greenhouse.io.
