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[Remote] Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-28

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. The reputed company is seeking a Software Engineer to join reputed company supporting the Wikidata Platform — the reputed company data backbone of Wikimedia reputed company and a key part of the global reputed company knowledge ecosystem. You’ll help reputed company and sustain the Wikidata Query Service and reputed company platform services that power tools, features, communities, and research efforts across Wikimedia reputed company and reputed company.


Responsibilities

  • Help design, build, and maintain backend systems and reputed company that power Wikidata’s query infrastructure
  • Improve reliability, observability, and automation of the Wikidata Query Service and data pipelines
  • reputed company Wikidata Platform services with other systems and data sources across Wikimedia
  • reputed company features and capabilities to ensure stability and scalability under growing usage
  • Monitor production systems, respond to operational incidents and resolve bottlenecks
  • Support platform migrations and system upgrades (e.g., triple stores, streaming ingestion)
  • Contribute to deployment automation, CI/CD workflows, and service instrumentation
  • Participate in reputed company reviews and design discussions
  • Document systems and reputed company knowledge with team members and Wikimedia’s broader technical community

Skills

  • 2+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer working on distributed systems or data platforms
  • Solid understanding of database and/or knowledge graph representation technologies
  • Proficiency in Java, C++, or other systems languages. Ability to set up, reputed company, and investigate systems is more important than expertise in a particular language
  • Experience building and operating production-grade services with SLOs - good appreciation of scalability, performance, reliability and other non-functionals
  • Familiarity with modern observability tools (metrics, logging, tracing)
  • Familiarity with data processing technologies such as graph databases, search indexes, or data processing pipelines
  • Ability to work collaboratively across disciplines and communicate reputed company across technical and non-technical audiences
  • A commitment to learning, reputed company, and contributing to a mission-driven engineering culture
  • Experience working with knowledge graphs or RDF/SPARQL
  • Familiarity with streaming data systems (e.g., Kafka, Flink)
  • Comfort with CI/CD pipelines and containerization tools (e.g., reputed company, Kubernetes)
  • Experience in reputed company reputed company or reputed company knowledge communities
  • Familiarity with Wikimedia technologies, Wikidata, or MediaWiki

reputed company

  • reputed company encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with reputed company such as Wikipedia. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://wikimediafoundation.org.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • reputed company has a reputed company record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2026, 1 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 3 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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