27 Aug 2025

Engineering Manager, Experiment Platform Team at Wikimedia Foundation

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Job Description

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and our other free knowledge projects. We want to make it easier for everyone to share what they know. To do this, we keep Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites fast, reliable, and available to all. We protect the values and policies that allow free knowledge to thrive. We build new features and tools…

Engineering Manager, Experiment Platform Team

As the Engineering Manager for the Experiment Platform Team, you will lead a small high-performing team of engineers building the experimentation platform. In this role, you have an exciting opportunity to shape its architecture and capabilities. You will work alongside product analytics teams, SRE, and data engineering to ensure the platform meets the needs of product teams while maintaining the highest standards for privacy, reliability, and performance. You will work in close partnership with the Product Manager to translate product vision into technical roadmaps, balancing feature requests from product teams with platform reliability and scalability needs.

This is a fully remote position. Some travel is required 2–3 times a year for off-sites and other events.

Responsibilities

  • Foster a supportive team environment, ensuring diverse voices are heard and team members feel empowered to lead
  • Coordinate and lead key team rituals such as sprint and capacity planning, estimation and stand-ups to ensure smooth execution and alignment
  • Manage team workstreams by tracking progress, resolving blockers, and managing cross-team dependencies
  • Coach engineers in the art and science of software engineering and evolvable software architecture
  • Guide team member career growths through structured development techniques and career growth
  • Own technical decisions and working closely with the team to find best solutions to hard problems
  • Partner with Product to help product teams adopt the platform and provide guidance on experimentation best practices
  • Facilitate conversations about long-term technical strategy for the Experiment Platform
  • Partner closely with the Product Manager to prioritize platform capabilities and define technical requirements
  • Balance timely feature delivery with quality, reliability, and scalability requirements
  • Be a strong voice, leader, and collaborator on team activities including code reviews culture, ceremonies, and work allocation.
  • Partner with peers on cross-team delivery and radiating organizational updates
  • Collaborate with product analytics to ensure the platform supports meaningful experiment analysis

Skills and Experience:

  • 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams, preferably working on data platforms or developer tools
  • Strong technical background with ability to make architectural decisions and guide technical discussions
  • Experience with distributed systems and scaled web applications
  • Understanding of A/B testing methodologies and statistical concepts
  • Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholder teams
  • Commitment to open source values and collaborative development
  • Experience with cloud platforms and container orchestration
  • Knowledge of observability tools and practices


Method of Application

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Closing Date : September 16, 2025





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