Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a
Senior Software Security Engineer, Remote - Worldwide

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Security Engineer to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies for Wikipedia and other projects. The role involves designing and coding new features to protect the platform against attacks, working with other development teams, performing security maintenance, addressing technical debt in security-critical components, providing support for application security incidents and operations.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience with a focus on security
• Ability to work effectively in a modern, object-oriented PHP codebase
• Experience developing client-side JavaScript
• Experience in developing secure software or security-related product features

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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