Published: Sat, 30 Aug 2025 02:51:17 GMT
Position: Engineering Manager, Experiment Platform Team
Company: Wikimedia Foundation
Location: Fully remote
Overview:
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to join our Experiment Platform Team. The Experiment Platform Team is responsible for building and maintaining a privacy-preserving experimentation platform that enables data-driven decisions across our global products. This platform will be used by 10+ product teams to test product decisions through privacy-preserving experimentation.
Job Description:
As the Engineering Manager for the Experiment Platform Team, you will lead a small team of high-performing engineers in building and maintaining the experimentation platform. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape the platform’s architecture and capabilities. You will work closely with product analytics, SRE, and data engineering teams to ensure the platform meets the needs of product teams while maintaining the highest standards for privacy, reliability, and performance. You will also work closely with the Product Manager to translate product vision into technical roadmaps and balance feature requests with platform needs.
This is a fully remote position with occasional travel required for off-sites and events.
Responsibilities:
– Foster a supportive team environment and ensure all team members feel empowered to lead
– Coordinate and lead key team rituals such as sprint and capacity planning, estimation, and stand-ups
– Manage team workstreams, track progress, resolve blockers, and manage cross-team dependencies
– Coach engineers in software engineering and evolvable software architecture
– Guide team members’ career growth through structured development techniques
– Make technical decisions and work closely with the team to find solutions to complex problems
– Partner with Product to help product teams adopt the platform and provide guidance on experimentation best practices
– Facilitate discussions about long-term technical strategy for the Experiment Platform
– Work closely with the Product Manager to prioritize platform capabilities and define technical requirements
– Balance timely feature delivery with quality, reliability, and scalability needs
– Be a strong voice, leader, and collaborator on team activities, including code reviews, culture, ceremonies, and work allocation
– Partner with peers on cross-team delivery and organizational updates
– Collaborate with product analytics to ensure the platform supports meaningful experiment analysis
Skills and Experience:
– 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, preferably working on data platforms or developer tools
– Strong technical background with the ability to make architectural decisions and guide technical discussions
– Experience with distributed systems and scaled web applications
– Understanding of A/B testing methodologies and statistical concepts
– Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholder teams
– Commitment to open source values and collaborative development
– Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration
– Knowledge of observability tools and practices
Qualities that are important to us:
– A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
– Experience working on remote teams, especially globally distributed teams
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
– Familiarity with MediaWiki or similar content management systems
– Experience building or operating experimentation platforms
– Open source contribution experience
– Experience with privacy-preserving analytics techniques
About the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members based in over 40 countries. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based on their race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in 40+ countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range for this position is $132,439 to $208,378 for applicants based within the United States, with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living, 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.
*Please note that 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 Kingdom, United States of America, and Uruguay. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third-party Employer of Record (EOR). We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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