Graph Consultant

Location: Remote Work from Anywhere

• Type: Contract
• Duration: 5 months
• Hours: 40 hours/week

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Graph Engineer Consultant to support our team, reporting to the Engineering Manager, Search Platform. As the Graph Engineer Consultant, you will be responsible for defining a transition strategy for migrating Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) from Blazegraph to a different RDF store and executing this transition. Your work will include understanding and documenting the current state, its limitations and the needs of a future solution in accordance with the needs of the Wikidata community and the engineering constraints identified.

You are responsible for:

• Documenting the criteria that will be used to evaluate alternative RDF stores to replace our use of Blazegraph.
• Listing and reviewing potential alternate solutions in light of the criteria defined above. Experimenting with the most promising solutions to validate decisions.
• Time permitting, implementing a new version of WDQS based on an alternate RDF store.

Skills and Experience:

• Strong familiarity with Graph databases and / or RDF stores
• Proven track record of analyzing complex processes and advising on strategy
• Experience working with large-scale services

Qualities that are important to us:

• Comfortable making trade-off decisions
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Additionally, we’d love it if you have:

• Direct experience working with Wikidata Query Service
• Understanding of the free culture, free software, or online rights movements