The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking an experienced and mission-driven Engineering Manager to lead the security and privacy engineering group in our Product Safety and Security team, and to advise the Foundation on security and privacy issues.
Product Safety and Security is a team made of two tightly connected engineering groups. This role manages a group of security and privacy engineers that strengthen the security and privacy of the applications that make up Wikipedia and our other projects. This role works closely with a peer engineering group focused on promoting the integrity of the Wikipedia platform and the safety of the people that make it work. Both engineering groups report to the Director of Engineering, MediaWiki.
This is a leadership role that partners closely with the Group Product Manager for Safety and Security to determine and operationalize the Product Safety and Security team’s roadmap and priorities.

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.

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

The Wikimedia Foundation operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. We care deeply about the security, privacy, and integrity of these projects, and of the volunteer community that makes them matter. The Product Safety and Security team plays a central role in shaping how the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects will adapt to increasingly complex threats.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• 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