Career Opportunities at the Wikimedia Foundation: 10+ Remlte Roles Now Open Across Fundraising, Communications, and Technology
The Wikimedia Foundation—the nonprofit powering Wikipedia and its sister projects—has opened a diverse set of roles across fundraising, marketing, communications, engineering, and infrastructure. As a remote-first organization operating in 40+ countries, the Foundation offers opportunities to contribute to one of the world’s most impactful open-knowledge platforms. Below is an overview of the current openings, along with the organization’s values, benefits, and hiring locations.
Fundraising
Senior Major Gift Officer – Remote
The Senior Major Gift Officer plays a key role in securing major and planned gifts for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Major Gifts & Planned Giving, this role manages a portfolio of high-value donors, leads personalized cultivation strategies, and supports large-scale outreach. Success requires strong relationship management, strategic communication, and experience in major gifts fundraising.
Communications
Senior Integrated Marketing Specialist (Contract)
A maternity-cover role (February–June 2026), this position leads major marketing initiatives with high autonomy. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Integrated Marketing, the specialist ensures continuity of campaign performance and develops integrated marketing workstreams during a high-impact period for the organization.
Movement Communications Specialist – Remote
The Movement Communications Specialist strengthens multilingual storytelling, digital engagement, and community communications. Working with over 300,000 Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates, the specialist helps build trust and shared understanding between the Wikimedia Foundation and its global movement. The role involves collaborative content creation, storytelling, and community-building.
Product & Technology
Software Engineer, MediaWiki Interfaces – Remote
This engineer joins the team maintaining MediaWiki’s integration interfaces and APIs—the backbone of Wikipedia’s editing and access systems. The role involves building features that support teams across the organization and millions of global users.
Senior Software Engineer – Remote
The senior engineer contributes to the engineering strategy behind Wikipedia’s high-volume data feeds. Responsibilities include cross-team collaboration, tool development, system reliability improvement, and long-term technical planning.
Senior Software Engineer (Security) – Remote
This hands-on role focuses on developing security features that protect Wikipedia’s users and platforms. The engineer works closely with the Product Safety and Integrity team.
Senior UX Prototyper (Contract)
A four-month contract supporting the Moderator Tools team, responsible for designing high-fidelity, code-based prototypes that test workflows for the Moderator Homepage.
Director of Data – Remote (UTC-8 to UTC+3)
A senior leadership role overseeing data engineering, search, experimentation, and data-related SRE. Responsibilities include delivering privacy-respecting, reliable data systems powering analytics, machine learning, and public datasets.
Senior Software Engineer, Wikidata Platform – Remote
This engineer supports the Wikidata Query Service and structured-data infrastructure. The role combines backend engineering with operational ownership to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance.
Staff Database Administrator – Remote
A key technical role supporting massive-scale relational databases (primarily MariaDB). Responsibilities include optimization, systems design, and maintaining the database backbone powering Wikipedia.
Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure – Remote
The staff engineer supports critical infrastructure projects across the Product Department. This role provides an opportunity to shape the technology behind one of the world’s most visited websites.
Senior Software Engineer – Trust & Safety – Remote
A technical position focused on enhancing platform safety for Wikimedia users, contributing to features that support integrity, transparency, and community protection.
Site Reliability Engineering Manager – Remote
Reporting to the Director of SRE, the manager supports teams maintaining Wikimedia’s global infrastructure. The role focuses on team leadership, resilience, and reliability across mission-critical systems.
Values & Commitment
The Wikimedia Foundation emphasizes collaboration, transparency, and continuous learning. Core values include inclusivity, shared mission, curiosity, and collective improvement. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to all organizational practices, and the Foundation is committed to co-creating safe, respectful, and equitable workplaces.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Foundation welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, identity, disability, nationality, or any protected characteristic. Applicants needing accommodations may contact recruiting@wikimedia.org.
Benefits (U.S. Roles)
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 16 weeks paid new parent leave (+ 8 weeks pregnancy leave)
- Wellness reimbursement up to $1,800/year
- Professional development support
- 401(k) with 4% match
- Generous paid time off
- Pre-tax savings plans
- Life & disability insurance
- Equipment stipend and remote-work setup support
(Non-U.S. roles follow local regulations via a global Employer of Record.)
Hiring Locations
The Foundation currently hires in 40+ countries including the U.S., U.K., Germany, South Africa, Kenya, India, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Nigeria, and many more across Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific.
Compensation
Salaries are set to be competitive, equitable, and aligned with cost of living in each location. U.S. salary ranges are disclosed by law; international ranges are adjusted accordingly.
