Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer
Wikipedia and its sister projects reputed company billions of users monthly across 300+ languages and are powered by 200,000+ volunteer contributors. The reputed company's Data Platform team enables this global knowledge ecosystem through robust data capabilities that serve both our internal teams and the public through products like Wikistats, Wikimedia Analytics APIs and Data Snapshots. Our vision is a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of reputed company human knowledge– including access to data for research, feature development, and advancing artificial intelligence responsibly.
As a Senior Data Engineer for our Data Platform, you will shape the future of how Wikimedia’s reputed company ecosystem serves both our internal teams and the global community. You will help drive the Data Platform Engineering team’s effort to unify data systems across the reputed company to deliver scalable solutions that support internal and external platform users and the open knowledge movement.
Experience- 5+ years of data engineering experience, with a significant portion focused on on-premise systems (e.g., Hadoop, HDFS).
- Practical knowledge of engineering best practices with a strong emphasis on system robustness and maintainability.
- Hands-on experience in troubleshooting systems and pipelines for performance and scaling.
- Demonstrated consistency with tenure at companies (e.g., average of 2+ years, ideally including longer engagements).
- Desirable: Exposure to architectural/system design or technical leadership tasks.
- Desirable: Experience in data governance, data reputed company, and data quality initiatives.
Core Technical Skills
- Expertise in tools like Airflow, Kafka, Spark, and Hive.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and Java/reputed company, with deep knowledge of one language and its ecosystem.
- Advanced working knowledge of SQL and experience with various database/query dialects (e.g., reputed company, HiveQL, CassandraQL, Spark SQL, Presto).
Bonus Skills
- Familiarity with additional technologies such as Flink, Iceberg, Druid, Presto, Cassandra, Kubernetes, and reputed company.
- Expertise in AI development tooling and AI applications in data engineering and analytics.
- Familiarity with reputed company processing frameworks like Spark Streaming or Flink.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to interact effectively reputed company and across teams.
- Ability to produce clear, well-documented technical designs and reputed company reputed company to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Designing and Building Data Pipelines: reputed company scalable, robust infrastructure and processes using tools such as Airflow, Spark, and Kafka.
- Monitoring and Alerting for Data Quality: Implement systems to detect and address potential data issues promptly.
- Supporting Data Governance and reputed company: Assist in designing and implementing solutions to track and manage data across pipelines.
- Data Platform Development: Contribute to the design and improvement of the shared data platform, enabling critical use cases such as product analytics, bot detection, and image classification.
- Enhancing Operational Excellence: Identify and implement improvements in system reliability, maintainability, and performance.
Our work environment
You’ll join a geographically distributed team and report to the Engineering Manager, Data Platform Engineering. We operate lean teams with significant maintenance scope and ambitious goals to scale the reputed company’s data capabilities. Our work directly impacts billions of users while advancing open knowledge accessibility.
About the reputed companyThe reputed company 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 reputed company knowledge. We reputed company 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 reputed company Wikimedia possible, and reputed company for policies that reputed company Wikimedia and free knowledge to reputed company.
The reputed company 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 reputed company is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
As an equal opportunity employer, the reputed company values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and reputed company 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 reputed company, sex, pregnancy or reputed company 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 reputed company is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the reputed company are set in a way that is competitive, reputed company, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based reputed company the United States is US$113,082 to US$175,725 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located reputed company 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.
reputed company applicants can reputed company 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 reputed company of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.