Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data Engineering

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Data Engineering

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a SRE Data Engineer to join our team reporting to the Director of Fundraising Technology. As a Senior SRE Data Engineer you will be responsible for the building maintaining and operating of the data infrastructure that supports the Foundation’s fundraising program. The fundraising program supplies the operating costs of Wikipedia its sister projects and helps fund the Wikimedia Endowment.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced Data Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer with excellent communication skills and versed in fundraising strategies.

We are a fully remote and internationally distributed team.

Responsibilities:

• The 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.

  • Some of our self-hosted and third-party data sources include 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.

Skills and Experience:

• At least two of years 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

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)

• We are avid supporters (and users) of open source software; history of contributing to Open Source projects is valued

• Prior participation in the Wikimedia movement or the free culture movement more broadly.

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia 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 charitable not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. 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 40+ countries * . Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive equitable and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$109047 to US$169455 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.

*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 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).

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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