Engineering Manager - Testing Platform
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Testing Platform team. The team purpose is to provide the foundation for software engineers to self-service on quality practices by providing tools and frameworks to write tests and testing environments to execute them. We’re committed to making knowledge available to everyone globally. This is an opportunity to do good while building technology that empowers the current and future generations of developers across the globe to build high quality software that scales with our mission.
This role supports a geographically distributed team of 5-7 software engineers who are building and operating cloud testing environments, visual regression and end-to-end testing frameworks, code quality tools and other testing frameworks that ensures quality of the software that runs Wikipedia and its sister projects.
Our team builds a platform layer that enables our staff & communities to achieve our Vision: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
The Wikimedia Foundation values diversity and recognizes that employees from a broad range of perspectives are essential to creating a knowledge source that benefits everyone. We are committed to inclusion, diversifying tech, and advocating for diversity in our employees, their experiences, and the people we serve.
You are responsible for:
- Collaborating with your team and cross-functional stakeholders to plan, prioritize, and delegate work, balancing project goals with technical requirements and team skill sets.
- Driving execution–ensuring projects are on track, key performance metrics are being met, and work is being actively unblocked.
- Communicating proactively on progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders.
- Ensuring the engineering team is engaged and productive, and understands the big picture of the project and how their efforts contribute to it.
- Coaching your team, conducting performance reviews, providing career guidance, and building a professional and inclusive work culture.
- Managing risk and succession planning for the project, documenting and implementing lifecycle management and best practices for the software we build.
- Interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and mentoring engineers with the goal of quickly making them productive and engaged members of your team.
Skills and Experience:
- Several years of engineering experience, including multiple years in a technical management or leadership role.
- Several years of hands-on experience developing, designing and reviewing web applications using languages such as Go, Python, PHP or other object oriented programming languages.
- Experience in building and operating resilient, reliable software systems and services utilizing scalable infrastructure technologies (e.g. Kubernetes).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to articulate complex technical topics and solutions clearly and concisely.
- An established track record and prior success in working with a multicultural, remote and distributed high-performing team.
- Robust analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills with the ability to deliver on detail as well as strategy.
- Work flexible hours with core overlap time from 2-6 pm UTC.
Qualities that are important to us:
- Alignment with our mission and values.
- Experience with open source development methodologies and open source community.
- Excellent communication and follow-up skills. You’re actively engaged, and your team feels involved and well-informed about what’s happening in the team and broader organization.
- Experience with remote work and the level of engagement and communication it takes to build a geographically distributed team that is functional and healthy.
- Experience with large-scale, global developer ecosystems and platforms and managing the risks and opportunities associated with them.
- Resilience—we work on new and interesting problems in public and collaborative ways.
- Working together for outcomes, and being willing to change course.
- Passionate about developing people and platforms, with a focus on fostering a strong product-minded culture.
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Experience working in platform teams and scaling impact across the organization.
- Experience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons communities or other collaborative enterprises.
- Familiarity with MediaWiki.
