Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its remote Wikidata Platform team. The role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining backend systems and APIs that power the Wikidata Query Service, improving reliability, observability, and automation. Responsibilities include collaborating with SRE, data engineers, and product teams, monitoring production systems, supporting migrations, and contributing to CI/CD and documentation. Candidates should have at least five years of backend or platform engineering experience, strong knowledge of distributed systems, databases or knowledge graph technologies, and proficiency in Java, C++, or similar systems languages.

Key details

• Remote position with required overlap of UTC+1 to UTC-5 time zones
• Senior role requiring 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience
• Focus on distributed systems, databases, and knowledge graph technologies
• Responsibilities include system design, reliability, observability, and CI/CD
• Collaboration with SRE, data engineers, and product teams