Remote Senior Software Security Engineer

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Security Engineer to join their Product Security team. The role involves building new security technologies for Wikipedia and other projects, primarily on the MediaWiki platform. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering experience with a focus on security, experience developing in PHP and JavaScript, and an understanding of security challenges in large-scale international projects.

Requirements

• 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

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 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

Benefits

• Salaries are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 105,309 to US$ 163,646
• We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants