Senior Software Engineer - Performance job at Wikimedia Foundation
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Vacancy title:
Senior Software Engineer - Performance

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

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Wikimedia Foundation

Deadline of this Job:
09 September 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, August 26, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Senior Software Engineer - Performance

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, Browsertime) and Real User Monitoring (direct collection, stored in Prometheus/Graphite)
• Familiarity with our backend stack: PHP, MariaDB, Varnish

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 09 September 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 26-08-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 26-08-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 26-08-2065
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