Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary

A company is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to support the Wikidata Platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend systems and APIs for Wikidata's query infrastructure
• Improve reliability, observability, and automation of the Wikidata Query Service and data pipelines
• Collaborate with teams to ensure stability and scalability, monitor production systems, and support platform migrations

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a backend or platform engineer with distributed systems or data platforms
• Deep understanding of database and knowledge graph representation technologies and standards
• Proficiency in Java, C++, or other systems languages
• Experience building and operating production-grade services with SLOs
• Familiarity with modern observability tools and understanding of graph databases or data processing pipelines