Full-Time Senior Engineering Manager, Experiment Platform

Join us as we collaborate to make Wikipedia and others projects better at freely sharing in the sum of all knowledge. The Wikimedia Foundation is building a privacy-preserving experimentation platform to enable data-driven decisions across our products at global scale. The Experiment Platform Team is actively developing and maintaining this infrastructure, providing product teams with A/B testing, feature flags, and experiment analysis capabilities.

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.

Responsibilities:

• Foster a supportive team environment.
• Coordinate and lead key team rituals.
• Manage team workstreams by tracking progress.
• Coach engineers in the art and science of software engineering.
• Guide team member career growths.
• Own technical decisions.
• Partner with Product to help product teams adopt the platform.
• Facilitate conversations about long-term technical strategy.
• Partner closely with the Product Manager to prioritize platform capabilities.
• Balance timely feature delivery with quality, reliability, and scalability requirements.
• Be a strong voice, leader, and collaborator on team activities.
• Collaborate with product analytics to ensure the platform supports meaningful experiment analysis

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience managing engineering teams.
• Strong technical background.
• Experience with distributed systems and scaled web applications.
• Understanding of A/B testing methodologies and statistical concepts.
• Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholder teams

Qualities that are important to us:

• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
• Experience working on remote teams, especially globally distributed teams

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Familiarity with MediaWiki or similar content management systems
• Experience building or operating experimentation platforms
• Open source contribution experience
• Experience with privacy-preserving analytics techniques

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