Specialty
The role
The Wikimedia Foundation is running a paid, four-month software engineering internship from late February to June 2027, placing interns on engineering teams with a mentor. It is fully remote in the US and open to graduates, non-graduates and career changers.
What you will do
- Deliver a defined project on an engineering team
- Work with a manager and mentor on open-source code
- Learn how Wikimedia software is built and deployed
What they ask for
- Basic experience with a programming language such as PHP, JavaScript, Python, Kotlin or Swift, or interest in security and privacy
- Basic database experience
- Basic scripting experience
- Commitment to 40 hours a week for four months
- Apply by November 20, 2026
What they offer
- Paid, 40 hours per week
- Laptop and software provided
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Wikimedia Foundation's careers page behind the apply button.
