Software Engineering Internship Program (2027)
Posted 27 Oct 2026 · Application link last checked 27 Oct 2026
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Role Overview
Software Engineering Internship Program
Location: Remote (US)*
Duration: 4 months (start in late February 2027)
Hours: 40 hrs/week paid experience
Application Deadline: All interested applicants must apply by November 20, 2026.
The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia – one of the most popular websites in the world, accessed by over 1.8 billion unique devices every month. It is the only non-profit in the top 50 websites, supported by a community of millions of individual donors around the world.
We are looking for graduates, non-graduates, or those seeking a career change who are interested in developing software engineering skills through an immersive “learn on the job” internship program. As an intern, you will be embedded into an engineering team within our Product and Technology departments and assigned a primary project with clear deliverables. Alongside your manager and dedicated mentor, you will learn the inner workings of our open source code that helps to create “a world in which everyone can freely share in the sum of all knowledge”. You will work with software that serves over half a billion page views per day through Wikipedia (and other Wikimedia projects). The outcome of your work will impact how all people everywhere discover, share, and contribute to free knowledge.
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