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Engineering Manager, Security & Privacy NGO Job Wikimedia Foundation

Engineering Manager, Security and Privacy Job

  • Leading a group of security engineers and privacy engineers in protecting the Wikimedia Foundation’s people, project integrity, infrastructure and other assets against threats.
  • Advising product management across the Foundation on security best practices and security implications of various product decisions.
  • Helping to establish the Wikimedia Foundation’s overall security and safety roadmap, and ensuring delivery against its technical and organizational goals.
  • Collaborating with Product & Engineering teams, Legal, ITS and other departments.
  • Setting direction, unblocking work, and ensuring delivery against technical and organizational goals.
  • Establishing and leading the execution of group processes, including sprint planning, security releases and deployments, security incident response.
  • Hiring and developing a high-performing, inclusive engineering group that builds and owns security-critical software and operates from a shared sense of mission

Skills and Experience:

  • Experience managing engineers and engineering teams responsible for infrastructure, platform, or developer-facing tools.
  • Strong technical background with experience in systems engineering, cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, OpenStack, etc.), and developer platform architecture.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional collaboration and product-oriented development in open communities or large-scale developer ecosystems.
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills, especially in distributed and asynchronous environments.
  • Ability to travel 2-3 times a year.

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

  • Experience managing engineering teams with a focus on security.
  • Experience contributing to or leading in open-source projects.
  • Familiarity with Wikipedia or Wikimedia projects
  • A passion for building inclusive platforms that lower barriers to entry and empower a diverse set of contributors.

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