Job Opportunity for Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Engineering at Wikimedia Foundation in Fully Remote (Specific countries listed)

**Job Title:** Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Engineering

**Company:** Wikimedia Foundation

**About the Wikimedia Foundation:** The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia and other Wikimedia free knowledge projects.  Their vision is a world where every human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.  They rely on donations from individuals and institutions to fund their operations. The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff and contractors in 40+ countries.

**Job Location:** Fully Remote (Specific countries listed below)

**Experience Required:**

* At least two years of experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team.

* Experience supporting high-availability distributed production systems.

* Experience with database administration and support.

* Proficiency with configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack).

* Familiarity with modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics, and logging).

* Proficiency in shell and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, Ruby).

* Strong understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills.

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

* BS or MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

**Responsibilities:**

* Deployment, configuration, and maintenance of distributed data systems comprising the data and analytics platform (Trino/Starburst, MariaDB, Dagster, dbt, Superset, Metabase).

* Implementation of data quality monitoring and alerting systems.

* Collaboration with the Fundraising team to integrate data from self-hosted and third-party sources (CiviCRM, Zendesk, Acoustic).

* Provision of increased engineering support during high-traffic campaigns.

* Creation and maintenance of internal documentation.

* Ensuring compliance with regulations (Donor Privacy Policy, GDPR, PCI DSS).

* User and permission management for data access control.

* Advising staff on data input best practices and streamlining data entry processes.

* Collaboration with Fundraising Analytics to prioritize data enhancement requests.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

* Experience with PCI compliance standards.

* Experience implementing containerization solutions (Docker, Kubernetes).

* Experience with package management for operating systems (Debian, etc.).

* History of contributing to open-source projects.

* Prior participation in the Wikimedia movement or free culture movement.

**Eligible Countries for Employment:** 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 Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, and Uruguay.  (Note: Non-US employees are hired through a local third-party Employer of Record.)