Senior Software Engineer - Performance job at Wikimedia Foundation
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Senior Software Engineer - Performance

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Computer & IT ]

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Wikimedia Foundation

Deadline of this Job:
29 November 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, November 16, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

As part of a highly distributed, worldwide, and diverse organization, you will collaborate with other teams through an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication. A big part of our work is devoted to collecting and analyzing site performance data to ensure that we have a holistic and accurate understanding of what users experience when they access Wikimedia sites. You can discover our dashboards by visiting the Wikimedia Performance portal.
Our team communicates solely in English, as a consequence, you will need to be comfortable discussing and solving technical problems in English. If you are able to provide collaborative solutions for complex problems and enjoy the idea of interacting with multiple stakeholders in an empathetic manner, you might be just the person we need.

You are responsible for:
• Sharing our values and working in accordance with them
• Understand, propose and pursue success metrics
• Being impact driven and able to align with the Foundation's priorities
• Work together with management to define high-level timelines, solve blockers and avoid delays
• Being open and able to ask for help from your teammates and learn from your own and other's mistakes
• Mentoring and supporting other engineers in the Foundation
• Being able to change your opinion and compromise when presented with new evidence or product input.
• Is able to propose solutions considering a complex array of inputs and needs

Skills and Experience:

• Ability to give and receive feedback in a constructive and honest manner.
• Familiarity with observability tools (such as Prometheus, or Logstash)
• Basic knowledge about main performance metrics and tests
• Ability to communicate well across different teams, roles, and contexts
• 5+ years of development experience in at least one language - PHP, python, Nodejs
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or the equivalent in work related experience

Qualities that are important to us:
• Track record of open source contributions is highly appreciated
• Familiarity with core distributed systems concepts
• Familiarity with monitoring synthetic measurements (WebPageTest, WebPageReplay, Browser time) and Real User Monitoring (direct collection, stored in Prometheus/Graphite)
• Familiarity with our backend stack: PHP, MariaDB, Varnish
• Ability to give and receive feedback in a constructive and honest manner. • Familiarity with observability tools (such as Prometheus, or Logstash) • Basic knowledge about main performance metrics and tests • Ability to communicate well across different teams, roles, and contexts • 5+ years of development experience in at least one language - PHP, python, Nodejs • Bachelor's degree in a related field or the equivalent in work related experience Qualities that are important to us: • Track record of open source contributions is highly appreciated • Familiarity with core distributed systems concepts • Familiarity with monitoring synthetic measurements (WebPageTest, WebPageReplay, Browser time) and Real User Monitoring (direct collection, stored in Prometheus/Graphite) • Familiarity with our backend stack: PHP, MariaDB, Varnish ">


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 29 November 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 16-11-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 16-11-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 16-11-2066
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