Tech Lead, Wikidata Platform

Responsibilities

• Stability, performance, and scalability of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) architecture and data pipeline.
• Articulating a vision for Wikidata Platform’s query infrastructure that supports continued growth and future sustainability.
• Developing new query methods, APIs, algorithms, and indexing strategies to optimize graph search capabilities for priority use cases.
• Collaborating with the Staff Product Manager, Engineering Manager, and other cross-functional colleagues to design system requirements and ship iterative improvements to meet user needs.
• Maintaining an understanding of current developments in structured knowledge representation technologies in order to propose innovative solutions.
• Persevering through setbacks to ensure team goals are met, or communicating when a pivot may be necessary.
• Developing an understanding of our movement and how it drives our work.
• Developing best practices for interacting with platform query services.
• Performing data analysis to uncover insights and patterns.

Skillset

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling API-driven data platform products with technical userbase.
• 4+ years of experience in data engineering, specifically with production deployments at scale.
• Deep understanding of database and knowledge graph representation technologies and standards.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, or other programming languages for database interactions.
• Ability to set up, scale, and investigate systems is more important than expertise in a particular language.
• Experience navigating issues associated with privacy-sensitive data and familiarity with security best practices in implementing database query services.
• Past success in breaking down ambiguous projects into clear tasks.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholder teams to deliver results through lateral influence and collaboration.
• Knowledge of highly scalable data processing frameworks (Spark, Kafka, Flink, etc.)