[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. The reputed company is seeking a Senior 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

• 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
• Collaborate with SRE, data engineers, and product teams to ensure stability and scalability under growing usage
• Monitor production systems, respond to operational incidents, and proactively identify 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, design discussions, and technical planning
• Document systems and reputed company knowledge with team members and Wikimedia’s broader technical community

Skills

• 5+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer working on distributed systems or data platforms
• Deep understanding of database and/or knowledge graph representation technologies and standards
• 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)
• Experience in data processing systems 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

Benefits

• The reputed company is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries.
• Our non-US employees are reputed company through a local reputed company party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have reputed company work authorization in their location.
• If you are a reputed company applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any reputed company of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at reputed company@wikimedia.org or +1 (415) 839-6885.

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