Summary

Wikipedia is where the world turns to understand almost any topic — The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia with a small staff. We are looking for a great engineer who wants to modernize the infrastructure underlying Wikipedia with distributed storage,services and REST interfaces. If this excites you we welcome you to join us. Description

• Work with a small team of four.

• Build a fully replicated storage service powering both internal services and our public REST content API (https://github.com/gwicke/restbase).

• Collaborate with other teams on the development of services for tasks like job queues, notifications, math rendering, citation data retrieval or content classification.

• Use the best available tools & languages for each task. Currently we work a lot with Nodejs, Cassandra, Kafka and ElasticSearch, but also use other tools and languages like Python, Java, C, C++ and PHP where it makes sense. Go or Scala could be options in the future.

• Build automated tests and thorough monitoring for the services being developed, and help package the services for internal and third party distribution.

• Change the world for more than half a billion people every month.