Job openings/Site Performance Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
Categorize |
GVarnum-WMF (talk | contribs) m →top: #REDIRECT Work with us Tag: New redirect |
||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
#REDIRECT [[Work with us]] |
|||
Site Performance Engineer and Senior Technical Advisor |
|||
'''REPORTS TO''' |
|||
VP of Engineering |
|||
'''JOB PURPOSE''' |
|||
* Organize and implement systematic improvements to Wikimedia site infrastructure to improve site performance for readers and editors; |
|||
* Support engineering management in coordination of architectural reviews, technical assessments, outreach to potential partners and vendors, hiring, and other priorities. |
|||
'''JOB SUMMARY''' |
|||
Duties include, but are not limited to the following: |
|||
* Acute investigation and problem solving in case of unexpected performance problems |
|||
* Improvements to site architecture, infrastructure and graphing/profiling/monitoring tools that improve site performance characteristics and developer awareness |
|||
* Education and onboarding of teams and individuals about profiling strategies, architectural improvements, and other engineering practices |
|||
* Coordination of technical and architectural reviews to ensure cross-team communication occurs at important points in the development cycle |
|||
* Support the hiring process with technical evaluation of candidates |
|||
* Other responsibilities as assigned |
|||
'''REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS''' |
|||
* Deep knowledge of the systems internals of web development stacks, dev-ops technologies, deployment tools, virtualization |
|||
* Deep knowledge of system architectures, including caching effects, concurrency control, I/O strategies, etc. |
|||
* Experience with debugging running processes, using tools such as gdb, strace, oprofile, xdebug, etc. |
|||
* Strong knowledge of and experience with the C programming language |
|||
* You must be comfortable in a highly collaborative, consensus-oriented environment |
|||
* You are able to work independently where needed, and can work remotely as part of a globally distributed team |
|||
[[Category:Job Descriptions|{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] |
|||
[[Category:English]] |
Latest revision as of 02:00, 19 September 2018
Redirect to: