Wikimedia Foundation – Social Impact Jobs

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Enterprise

Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager. As the Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining reliable, scalable, and highly available infrastructure for our API services. You will contribute heavily to the high impact challenges behind innovating, building, and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. In this role, you will foster cross department collaboration with the …

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Persistence

Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support and develop the platform serving the world’s favorite encyclopedia, Wikipedia, to millions of people around the globe. Wikimedia’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is principally responsible for ensuring our global top-10 website and its underlying infrastructure is healthy and developing further in support of Wikimedia’s mission: to help everyone share in the sum of all knowledge. The SRE team at Wikimedia is a globally distributed and …

Italian Translator / Linguist (Contract)

Summary Our Communications Translators group within the Wikimedia Foundation supports translation of the organization's communications materials. The group is a pilot being coordinated by the Wikimedia Foundation Communications department. Members will be able to select, based on their availability, which translation projects to participate in. Translation projects will focus on speedy translations of communication materials developed by the Wikimedia Foundation for organizational use from English into target languages (Italian in this case). Each target language will have 3-6 translators to …

Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Software Engineer to join the team supporting the WikidataPlatform — the structured data backbone of Wikimedia projects and a key part of the global open knowledge ecosystem. You’ll help scale and sustain the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and related platform services that power tools, features, communities, and research efforts across Wikimedia projects and beyond. This role combines backend engineering and operations ownership. You’ll implement high-scale, production-grade services while ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability. …

Principal, Global Event Security and Risk Management

PRINCIPAL, GLOBAL EVENT SECURITY AND RISK MANAGEMENT Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Principal, Global Event Security and Risk Management, to join our team. Our aim is to ensure everyone, everywhere can securely participate in free knowledge. As an organization, we are committed to proactively identifying and mitigating risks that impact both the Foundation and the Wikimedia movement. This includes enabling secure physical convenings and spaces for the robust global communities of volunteers we serve and often support …

Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the team supporting the WikidataPlatform — the structured data backbone of Wikimedia projects and a key part of the global open knowledge ecosystem. You’ll help scale and sustain the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and related platform services that power tools, features, communities, and research efforts across Wikimedia projects and beyond. This role combines backend engineering and operations ownership. You’ll implement high-scale, production-grade services while ensuring performance, reliability, and …

Software Engineer III, Product Safety & Integrity

Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity Team. Engineers at the Wikimedia Foundation get to work on technology that truly makes a global impact — powering Wikipedia and its sister projects, which serve billions of pageviews every month across hundreds of languages. It is a rare opportunity to contribute to one of the largest knowledge-sharing platforms in the world, and to help protect free access to information for everyone, everywhere. …

Fundraising Support Specialist (Contract)

Summary The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a Fundraising Support Specialist to join our Online Fundraising team, reporting to the Senior Manager of Fundraising Products. In this role, you will perform vital production tasks to enable our team of Revenue Specialists to launch and optimize fundraising campaigns in more than 20 languages and 30 countries each year. In a typical day, you will: Work in web files to modify HTML and CSS content as part of the production process for our international …

Principal, Executive Communications

The Wikimedia Foundation seeks a senior communications professional to lead our executive communications across a growing, global portfolio. This person's main responsibility is to serve as a primary communications partner to the Foundation's CEO, providing strategic counsel and direct support across internal and external communications. This includes building a comprehensive engagement strategy spanning multiple and complex stakeholder groups. In close collaboration with colleagues on the Foundation's media relations and internal communications teams, and with the Foundation's Chief of Staff, this …

Head of Marketing

HEAD OF MARKETING Reports to: Senior Director of External Communications Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced Head of Marketing to help establish and oversee a new function responsible for product and integrated marketing. The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Product marketing is a new function being established at the Foundation, and the Head of Marketing will help build it from the ground up. They will bring our existing integrated marketing …