Software Engineer Intern at Wikimedia Foundation

PROGRAM DETAILS

• Successful candidates must be able to commit to a four month, 40hr/week internship which will fall between late February to early June 2023.
• We will provide laptops and necessary software installed for the duration of the program.
• This role is 100% remote, and there may be potential opportunities to participate in in-person events to meet other fellow interns and teams.

POTENTIAL TEAM OPPORTUNITIES

• Site Reliability Engineering Team
• The SRE Infrastructure Foundations team builds the pillars of our bare-metal infrastructure and global network, the platform, configuration management and automation tools our other SRE and development teams can rely upon.

Research Science Team

• Wikimedia Research is a team of scientists and engineers using data to understand and empower millions of readers and contributors who interact with Wikipedia and its sister projects on a daily basis.

Growth Team

• The Growth Team works to help people become Wikipedia editors by introducing learning and editing workflows that are a fit for people on all types of devices, especially those in emerging communities around the world.
• We build a cohesive new editor experience, helping them find a place in our communities, connect with others, and start contributing their knowledge.

Design Systems Team & Web Team

• This team is responsible for building and maintaining a design system platform for wikis that provides shared services of tools and guidelines for building user interfaces in an efficient, scalable, and equitable way.

Community Tech Team

• Community Tech is the Wikimedia Foundation team running the Community Wishlist Survey. It builds and improves curation and moderation tools for experienced users, supports bot operators, and more.

Security Team

• The Wikimedia Security team is a multidisciplinary group of security experts with specializations in fields such as privacy, application security, and threat management. We strive to be leaders in cybersecurity, providing open source best practices and resources to help make the world a safer place.

Performance Team

• The Performance Team is responsible for creating value for readers and editors by making it possible to retrieve and render content at the speed of thought, from anywhere in the world, on the broadest range of devices and connection profiles.
• As we form our internship cohort, we are looking for candidates who possess:
• Basic experience with at least one back end or front end programming language (e.g PHP, Javascript) OR an interest in cybersecurity and/or privacy
• Basic experience with databases
• Basic experience with at least one scripting language
• Ability to work independently and be resourceful in solving problems
• Ability to stay accountable to deliverable requirements deadlines
• Effective and inclusive communication skills with diverse cultural and language communities.
• Willingness to learn, a positive attitude, and empathy
• A sense of curiosity and and hunger to learn
• The ability to flourish in a highly transparent and collaborative environment
• A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access to global education