Full-Time Engineering Manager, Security and Privacy

Why this role matters:

• The Product Safety and Security team plays a central role in shaping how the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects will adapt to increasingly complex threats.

You are responsible for:

• Leading a group of security engineers and privacy engineers in protecting the Wikimedia Foundation’s people, project integrity, infrastructure and other assets against threats.
• Advising product management across the Foundation on security best practices and security implications of various product decisions.
• Helping to establish the Wikimedia Foundation’s overall security and safety roadmap, and ensuring delivery against its technical and organizational goals.
• Collaborating with Product & Engineering teams, Legal, ITS and other departments.
• Setting direction, unblocking work, and ensuring delivery against technical and organizational goals.
• Establishing and leading the execution of group processes, including sprint planning, security releases and deployments, security incident response.
• Hiring and developing a high-performing, inclusive engineering group that builds and owns security-critical software and operates from a shared sense of mission

Skills and Experience:

• Experience managing engineers and engineering teams responsible for infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing tools.
• Strong technical background with experience in systems engineering, cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, OpenStack, etc.), and developer platform architecture.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and product-oriented development in open communities or large-scale developer ecosystems.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, especially in distributed and asynchronous environments.
• Ability to travel 2-3 times a year.

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Experience managing engineering teams with a focus on security.
• Experience contributing to or leading in open-source projects.
• Familiarity with Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects
• A passion for building inclusive platforms that lower barriers to entry and empower a diverse set of contributors.

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