ENGINEERING MANAGER, EXPERIMENT PLATFORM TEAM
Overview
Be a part of us as we collaborate to make Wikipedia and others initiatives higher at freely sharing within the sum of all data. The Wikimedia Basis, which hosts and helps Wikipedia, is constructing a privacy-preserving experimentation platform to allow data-driven selections throughout our merchandise at world scale. The Experiment Platform Group is actively growing and sustaining this infrastructure, offering product groups with A/B testing, characteristic flags, and experiment evaluation capabilities. This platform will allow 10+ product groups throughout the Wikimedia Basis to check product selections by means of privacy-preserving experimentation.
Job Description
Because the Engineering Supervisor for the Experiment Platform Group, you’ll lead a small high-performing crew of engineers constructing the experimentation platform. On this function, you’ve got an thrilling alternative to form its structure and capabilities. You’ll work alongside product analytics groups, SRE, and information engineering to make sure the platform meets the wants of product groups whereas sustaining the best requirements for privateness, reliability, and efficiency. You’ll work in shut partnership with the Product Supervisor to translate product imaginative and prescient into technical roadmaps, balancing characteristic requests from product groups with platform reliability and scalability wants.
It is a absolutely distant place. Some journey is required 2–3 instances a 12 months for off-sites and different occasions.
Obligations
- Foster a supportive crew atmosphere, making certain various voices are heard and crew members really feel empowered to guide
- Coordinate and lead key crew rituals corresponding to dash and capability planning, estimation and stand-ups to make sure clean execution and alignment
- Handle crew workstreams by monitoring progress, resolving blockers, and managing cross-team dependencies
- Coach engineers within the artwork and science of software program engineering and evolvable software program structure
- Information crew member profession growths by means of structured improvement methods and profession development
- Personal technical selections and dealing carefully with the crew to seek out greatest options to laborious issues
- Associate with Product to assist product groups undertake the platform and supply steering on experimentation greatest practices
- Facilitate conversations about long-term technical technique for the Experiment Platform
- Associate carefully with the Product Supervisor to prioritize platform capabilities and outline technical necessities
- Steadiness well timed characteristic supply with high quality, reliability, and scalability necessities
- Be a powerful voice, chief, and collaborator on crew actions together with code opinions tradition, ceremonies, and work allocation.
- Associate with friends on cross-team supply and radiating organizational updates
- Collaborate with product analytics to make sure the platform helps significant experiment evaluation
Expertise and Expertise:
- 3+ years of expertise managing engineering groups, ideally engaged on information platforms or developer instruments
- Sturdy technical background with capacity to make architectural selections and information technical discussions
- Expertise with distributed programs and scaled internet purposes
- Understanding of A/B testing methodologies and statistical ideas
- Expertise managing initiatives with a number of stakeholder groups
- Dedication to open supply values and collaborative improvement
- Expertise with cloud platforms and container orchestration
- Data of observability instruments and practices
Qualities which are necessary to us:
- A want to make significant contributions to data fairness, free tradition, and open entry
- Expertise engaged on distant groups, particularly globally distributed groups
Moreover, we’d like it in case you have:
- Familiarity with MediaWiki or comparable content material administration programs
- Expertise constructing or working experimentation platforms
- Open supply contribution expertise
- Expertise with privacy-preserving analytics methods
Concerning the Wikimedia Basis
The Wikimedia Basis is the nonprofit group that operates Wikipedia and the opposite Wikimedia free data initiatives. Our imaginative and prescient is a world by which each single human can freely share within the sum of all data. We consider that everybody has the potential to contribute one thing to our shared data, and that everybody ought to be capable to entry that data freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia initiatives, 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 world wide, with a mean donation of about $15. We additionally obtain donations by means of 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 individuals with a various vary of backgrounds to use. We don’t discriminate towards any particular person primarily based upon their race, traits traditionally related to race, faith, coloration, nationwide origin, intercourse, being pregnant or associated medical situations, parental standing, sexual orientation, gender id, gender expression, age, standing as a protected veteran, standing as a person with a incapacity, genetic data, or some other legally protected traits.
The Wikimedia Basis is a remote-first group with employees members together with contractors primarily based 40+ international locations*. Salaries on the Wikimedia Basis are set in a method 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$152,878 to US$325,030 with a number of individualized components, together with value of residing within the location, being the determinants of the provided pay. For candidates positioned outdoors of the US, the pay vary shall be adjusted to the nation of rent. We neither ask for nor think about the wage historical past of candidates. The compensation for a profitable applicant shall be primarily based on their expertise, expertise and placement.
*Please observe that we’re presently capable of rent within the following international locations: 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 by means of an area third get together Employer of Report (EOR).
We periodically overview this record to streamline to make sure alignment with our hiring necessities.
All candidates can attain out to their recruiter to grasp extra concerning the particular pay vary for his or her location in the course of the interview course of.
If you’re a certified applicant requiring help or an lodging to finish any step of the applying course of because of a incapacity, you might contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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