Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Data Persistence
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer managing Wikimedia’s infrastructure and improving reliability of top global websites. Collaborating with diverse teams and handling operational tasks in a remote capacity.
Responsibilities:
- Performing day-to-day operational/DevOps tasks on Wikimedia’s public facing infrastructure (deployment, maintenance, configuration, troubleshooting)
- Implementing and utilizing configuration management and deployment tools (Puppet, Kubernetes)
- Leading continuous improvement, by automating the installation, configuration and maintenance of services on our platform
- Working closely with product teams helping them bring scalable functionality to our users by assisting in the architectural design of new services and making them operate at scale
- Participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation shared across the broader SRE team. This includes taking part in incident response, diagnosis and follow-up on system outages or alerts across Wikimedia’s production infrastructure.
- Collaborating with a global, cross-functional team in an asynchronous communication environment
- Mentoring peers in your areas of technical and operational strength
Requirements:
- 6+ years experience in an SRE/Operations/DevOps role as part of a team
- Experience with shell and any scripting language used in an SRE context (Python, Go, Bash, Ruby; we primarily use Python) and configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible; we use Puppet)
- Experience with distributed caching systems: including their underlying algorithms and how to optimize their performance
- Experience with package management on Linux systems (we use Debian)
- Strong Linux system-level troubleshooting skills
- History of automating tasks and processes, identifying process gaps, and finding automation opportunities
- Strong English language skills (verbal and written) and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team working across multiple time zones
- Experience leading and participating in incident response and post-incident review rituals, with the goal of conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities

















