Site Reliability Engineering ManagerRemote

Site Reliability Engineering Manager

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Engineering Manager to join our SRE team, reporting to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering. As Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the engineers developing our infrastructure and supporting the services that depend on it, used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.

• Managing one to two globally distributed teams within Wikimedia's Site Reliability Engineering organization
• Providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the team's effectiveness and growth
• Working with team members to set individual performance goals, and supporting them in meeting and evolving their goals and career path
• Recruiting, hiring, and helping onboard new team members
• Triaging incoming workload, maintaining focus on priorities, and setting realistic expectations for both peers and team members
• Coordinating and communicating with other members of the Wikimedia product & engineering teams on relevant projects, executing complex projects and contributing to the organizational strategy
• Continuously developing the roadmap of the team in alignment with other SRE and Product & Technology teams, and helping to draft and execute the team's annual and quarterly plans
• Project managing new and existing initiatives
• Leading the definition, refinement, and execution of the processes through which the team manages and performs work
• Leading incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system alerts and outages across Wikimedia's production infrastructure
• Be part of 24/7 on-call rotation to handle escalations and provide support for teams to resolve issues
• Facilitating the definition and establishment of Service Level Indicators and Objectives with service owners and stakeholders

• Prior experience managing teams
• Prior hands-on experience with software or reliability engineering (within the last 3 years preferred)
• Ability to analyze complex systems, troubleshoot issues, and devise effective solutions under pressure
• Proficiency in project management methodologies to effectively plan, execute, and track new and existing initiatives
• Strong understanding of cloud computing, networking, Linux systems administration, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to be able to provide technical support to the team
• Aptitude for automation and streamlining of tasks
• Communicate effectively in both spoken and written English
• Ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team
• Ability to travel several times a year for occasional in-person meetings
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or the equivalent in related work experience

• Commitment to the mission of the organization, our values and guiding principles
• Ability to disagree in a respectful manner and yet work towards a solution even when you disagree
• Good at asynchronous communication
• Solutions-focused. The Wikimedia ecosystem is complex, resources are limited, and our guiding principles are ambitious. We want you to work to find solutions embracing these factors.
• Self motivated with an ability to navigate through ambiguity and bring a project to completion with limited directions
• Curiosity and commitment to learn

• Experience working in a distributed, largely remote environment
• Experience contributing to open source projects

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable 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 origin, sex, pregnancy or related 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.