Site Reliability Engineer III Observability
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Job Description
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About the job
Site Reliability Engineer III, Observability
Summary
Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our SRE team, where we take care of the infrastructure that runs wikipedia.org and other Wikimedia Foundation projects. We are responsible for the entire infrastructure stack, from multiple data centers through networking and interconnects to thousands of servers and the application stack that runs on them.
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We use more technologies than we can list here and are interested in your experience, even if it doesn’t exactly match the keywords listed here.
Responsibilities:
- Implementation and maintenance of Internet-facing infrastructure and services
- Use of configuration management and deployment tools
- Monitoring of systems and services, optimization of performance, and resource utilization
- Typical operating system-level tasks such as logging and backup / restore
- Cookbook/runbook implementation for everyday maintenance actions
- Incident response, diagnosis, and follow-up on system outages or alerts
- Collaborating with a global and asynchronously communicating team (don’t worry if you have never worked remotely; we’ll help you get used to it)
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Qualifications:
- 2+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role
- Experience with operating highly available infrastructure
- Comfortable with shell and a programming language used in an SRE/Operations engineering context (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.)
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We would love it if you have:
- A history of contributing to Open Source projects
- Prior participation in the Wikimedia movement
- Hands-on experience with Observability related tools practices (tracing, logging, metrics, performance monitoring, SLOs, and alerting)
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About the Wikimedia Foundation
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. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
- Experience with package management for operating systems (Debian, etc.)
- Comfortable with Open Source configuration management and orchestration tools (Puppet, Ansible, TerraForm, etc.)
- Past exposure to automation and streamlining of tasks
- Communicative technical English
Employment Type
Full Time
Company Industry
Department / Functional Area
Software Development / Application Development (IT Software)
