Job Description

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a highly technical and outcome-oriented Director of Data to lead their data engineering, search, experimentation, and data-related SRE teams. This role involves shipping reliable data products, maintaining a high technical standard, managing teams, and providing strategic technical oversight for petabyte-scale data systems.

Responsibilities

• Ship safely and incrementally
• Develop people and teams
• Provide technical strategy and oversight
• Partner effectively with Product Management
• Be an operational multiplier

Requirements

• 8+ years of engineering leadership with 3+ years managing managers
• Track record of shipping production data systems at massive scale
• Hands-on experience with open source tech stacks (Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, etc.)
• Ability to hire, coach, and lead globally distributed teams
• Deeply technical with strong judgment

Benefits

• No benefits