Engineering Manager, Tools Platform

Overview

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced and mission-driven Engineering Manager to lead our new Tools Platform Team —a group dedicated to building and evolving Toolforge , the backbone platform that powers over 3,300 community-built tools responsible for nearly 30% of all edits across Wikipedia and its sister projects.

This is a critical leadership role at the intersection of infrastructure and contributor experience. You will guide a team focused on transforming Toolforge into a production-grade platform that is reliable, scalable, and intuitive for technical contributors at every level of expertise.

Note : This description reflects the core responsibilities and requirements for the role and does not include external application steps or non-essential notices.

Why this role matters

Tool developers are essential to the health and innovation of the Wikimedia movement. They automate repetitive tasks, power bots, visualize data, and build workflows that serve editors and readers around the world. As Engineering Manager, you will lead the team making that developer experience simpler, faster, and more accessible—while ensuring the platform evolves in alignment with Wikimedia’s technical and strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team of engineers in building and maintaining the core services that power Toolforge and associated developer platforms like our shared Jupyter notebooks platform.
• Simplify the full tool lifecycle—from creation to deprecation—so contributors can build and maintain tools without needing to become sysadmins.
• Driving the transition of Toolforge to production-level reliability, using technologies like Kubernetes, Helm, and observability stacks common to Wikimedia’s production environment.
• Collaborating with product, SRE, developer advocacy, and community contributors to deliver high-impact improvements across developer workflows.
• Setting direction, unblocking work, and ensuring delivery against technical and organizational goals.
• Hiring and developing a high-performing, inclusive engineering team with strong ownership and a shared sense of mission.

Qualifications

Bonus points

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

Equal Employment Opportunity

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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