Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer

The Wikimedia Foundation 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 all knowledge. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will shape how contributors interact with Toolforge end-to-end—reducing friction, improving reliability, and setting technical direction for a multi-year platform strategy.

Responsibilities

• Providing Staff-level technical leadership for the software and product experience layer of Toolforge
• Designing and building the platform software and user-facing workflows used to create, deploy, debug, and maintain tools
• Leading the redesign of Toolforge's tool creation and maintenance UI
• Defining and implementing golden paths for common workloads such as Bots, Web tools and Data-processing tools
• Partnering closely with SREs to ensure platform software integrates cleanly with production infrastructure and operational practices
• Acting as a technical multiplier for the team by mentoring engineers, raising engineering standards, and guiding architectural decisions

Requirements

• Extensive experience as a senior or Staff-level software engineer working on platforms, developer tools, or infrastructure-adjacent systems
• Strong architectural skills across APIs, backend services, and user-facing workflows
• Experience designing and building developer platforms: build systems, deployment pipelines, lifecycle tooling, or similar
• Ability to work effectively across roles—partnering with SREs, product, developer advocates, and volunteer contributors
• Comfort operating in open, distributed, and asynchronous environments

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Generous retirement plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements