Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role working alongside our other security team members to design and code new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.
Responsibilities
- Help design and build MediaWiki security capabilities
- Review and deploy security features developed by the Foundation and community members
- Work with other development teams to ensure that they make safe architectural and implementation choices
- Perform security maintenance and address technical debt in security-critical components
- Provide support for application security incidents and operations
Skills and Experience
- Strong software engineering experience with a focus on security
- Ability to work effectively in a modern, object-oriented PHP code-base
- Experience developing client-side JavaScript
- Experience in developing secure software or security-related product features
- A strong interest in working with a talented security team and learning more specialist security skills such as exploiting and mitigating application-level vulnerabilities
- Patience in explaining security issues and their implications on privacy and risk to non-technical audiences
- Sensitivity to the security challenges faced by participants in a large, international project
- Experience using Linux at the command line for tasks related to web application development and deployment
- Ability to maintain focus when working remotely
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Experience working on anti-abuse mechanisms such as CAPTCHA and bot detection
- Previous experience building security countermeasures against attacks on technologies at the web, backend and database level
- Experience finding and fixing security bugs and reviewing code for security gaps
- A working knowledge of threat modeling and secure design patterns
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge...
