GMT-5 through GMT+1 Senior Software Engineer (Privacy)
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity team and build new security features to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role, working alongside a team of engineers and product managers to design and implement new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.
You are a seasoned software engineer with experience building security features in large-scale systems. You understand the importance of testing and documentation, and common pitfalls in developing secure web applications. As a top 10 website, we must meet stringent performance standards while addressing new security challenges such as supporting modern authentication technologies, detecting and preventing platform abuse from bots, and planning and rolling out improvements to our security architecture by defending against emerging threats.
Performing maintenance and addressing technical debt in security and privacy-critical components
Providing support for application security and privacy incidents and operations
5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ideally with focus on security or privacy
~ Ability to work effectively in a modern web application – ours is mostly PHP and JavaScript
~ Deep PHP experience isn’t required, if you have enough experience in engineering, and back-end web development, to learn it and be useful
~ Comfortably and autonomously creating proofs of concept, writing design documents, and breaking down complex projects into actionable tasks to support less experienced team members
~ Experience in developing secure software or security and privacy-related product features
~ Sensitivity to the security and privacy challenges faced by participants in a large, international project
~ Experience working in a remote, distributed team
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
Previous experience building security countermeasures against attacks on technologies at the web, backend, and database level
Prior experience with MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects
Contributions to open-source software
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries *. If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.