Wikimedia Foundation
## Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Engineering
**About the Wikimedia Foundation**
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing free access to knowledge for everyone. We operate Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, building software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content. We support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible and advocate for policies that enable free knowledge to thrive.
**Job Location:** Remote
**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.
* Comfortable with configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, SaltStack, etc.), and modern observability infrastructure (monitoring, metrics, and logging).
* Comfortable with shell and scripting languages such as Python, Go, Bash, Ruby.
* Good understanding of Linux/Unix fundamentals and debugging skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* BS or MS degree, preferably in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
**Responsibilities:**
* Deployment, configuration, and maintenance of the distributed data systems that comprise our data and analytics platform. Our evolving stack includes Trino/Starburst, MariaDB, Dagster, dbt, Superset, and Metabase.
* Implement data quality monitoring that alerts the team of possible data issues.
* Close collaboration with the rest of Fundraising to integrate and use data from across all of our self-hosted and third-party data sources (including our CRM (CiviCRM), donor relations system (Zendesk), email and SMS marketing provider (Acoustic)).
* Provide an increased level of engineering support during particularly high-traffic or critical campaigns.
* Write, use, and update internal documentation of systems and processes.
* Provide expertise and ensure compliance with applicable regulations, policies, and standards such as our Donor Privacy Policy, GDPR, and PCI DSS.
* Create and manage users and permissions to ensure data access control.
* Advise internal staff on best practices for data input, manage streamlining of manual uploads, and as needed develop processes to ensure consistency of data entry.
* Work closely with Fundraising Analytics to gather, scope, and prioritize data enhancement requests.
**Qualities that are important to us:**
* Commitment to the mission of the organization and our values.
* Commitment to our guiding principles.
* Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
* Cross-cultural sensitivity and awareness.
* Collaborative working experience.
**Additionally, we’d love it if you have:**
* Experience working 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 the free culture movement more broadly.
**Salary:**
The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$109,047 to US$169,455, with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience, and location.
**Hiring Locations:**
We are currently able to hire in the following countries: 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. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).
To apply for this job please visit job-boards.greenhouse.io.
