The Wikimedia Basis is in search of an skilled and mission-driven Engineering Supervisor to guide the safety and privateness engineering group in our Product Security and Safety crew, and to advise the Basis on safety and privateness points.
Product Security and Safety is a crew made from two tightly linked engineering teams. This position manages a gaggle of safety and privateness engineers that strengthen the safety and privateness of the purposes that make up Wikipedia and our different tasks. This position works intently with a peer engineering group centered on selling the integrity of the Wikipedia platform and the security of the those that make it work. Each engineering teams report back to the Director of Engineering, MediaWiki.
It is a management position that companions intently with the Group Product Supervisor for Security and Safety to find out and operationalize the Product Security and Safety crew’s roadmap and priorities.
Why this position issues
The Wikimedia Basis operates Wikipedia and the opposite Wikimedia free data tasks. We care deeply in regards to the safety, privateness, and integrity of those tasks, and of the volunteer group that makes them matter. The Product Security and Safety crew performs a central position in shaping how the Wikimedia Basis and its tasks will adapt to more and more advanced threats.
You might be liable for:
- Main a gaggle of safety engineers and privateness engineers in defending the Wikimedia Basis’s folks, undertaking integrity, infrastructure and different property in opposition to threats.
- Advising product administration throughout the Basis on safety greatest practices and safety implications of varied product selections.
- Serving to to determine the Wikimedia Basis’s total safety and security roadmap, and making certain supply in opposition to its technical and organizational objectives.
- Collaborating with Product & Engineering groups, Authorized, ITS and different departments.
- Setting route, unblocking work, and making certain supply in opposition to technical and organizational objectives.
- Establishing and main the execution of group processes, together with dash planning, safety releases and deployments, safety incident response.
- Hiring and growing a high-performing, inclusive engineering group that builds and owns security-critical software program and operates from a shared sense of mission
Abilities and Expertise:
- Expertise managing engineers and engineering groups liable for infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing instruments.
- Sturdy technical background with expertise in methods engineering, cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, OpenStack, and so forth.), and developer platform structure.
- Confirmed potential to guide cross-functional collaboration and product-oriented growth in open communities or large-scale developer ecosystems.
- Glorious communication and facilitation expertise, particularly in distributed and asynchronous environments.
- Potential to journey 2-3 occasions a 12 months.
Moreover, we’d like it if in case you have:
- Expertise managing engineering groups with a concentrate on safety.
- Expertise contributing to or main in open-source tasks.
- Familiarity with Wikipedia or Wikimedia tasks
- A ardour for constructing inclusive platforms that decrease obstacles to entry and empower a various set of contributors.
Concerning the Wikimedia Basis
The Wikimedia Basis is the nonprofit group that operates Wikipedia and the opposite Wikimedia free data tasks. Our imaginative and prescient is a world by which each single human can freely share within the sum of all data. We imagine that everybody has the potential to contribute one thing to our shared data, and that everybody ought to be capable of entry that data freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia tasks, construct software program experiences for studying, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content material, assist the volunteer communities and companions who make Wikimedia doable, and advocate for insurance policies that allow Wikimedia and free data to thrive.
The Wikimedia Basis is a charitable, not-for-profit group that depends on donations. We obtain donations from tens of millions of people all over the world, with a mean donation of about $15. We additionally obtain donations via institutional grants and items. The Wikimedia Basis is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt group with places of work in San Francisco, California, USA.
As an equal alternative employer, the Wikimedia Basis values having a various workforce and repeatedly strives to keep up an inclusive and equitable office. We encourage folks with a various vary of backgrounds to use. We don’t discriminate in opposition to any individual primarily based upon their race, traits traditionally related to race, faith, colour, nationwide origin, intercourse, being pregnant or associated medical circumstances, parental standing, sexual orientation, gender identification, gender expression, age, standing as a protected veteran, standing as a person with a incapacity, genetic info, or another legally protected traits.
The Wikimedia Basis is a remote-first group with employees members together with contractors primarily based 40+ nations*. Salaries on the Wikimedia Basis are set in a manner that’s aggressive, equitable, and in step with our values and tradition. The anticipated annual pay vary of this place for candidates primarily based inside the USA is US$ 132,439 to US$ 208,378 with a number of individualized components, together with price of residing within the location, being the determinants of the supplied pay. For candidates positioned exterior of the US, the pay vary will probably be adjusted to the nation of rent. We neither ask for nor take into accounts the wage historical past of candidates. The compensation for a profitable applicant will probably be primarily based on their expertise, expertise and site.
*Please be aware that we’re at present in a position to rent within the following nations: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Eire, 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 staff are employed via an area third social gathering Employer of Document (EOR).
We periodically evaluate this checklist to streamline to make sure alignment with our hiring necessities.
All candidates can attain out to their recruiter to grasp extra in regards to the particular pay vary for his or her location through the interview course of.
If you’re a certified applicant requiring help or an lodging to finish any step of the applying course of resulting from a incapacity, chances are you’ll contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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