Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a
Staff Software Security Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
π΅ $129k-$200k
πRemote - Worldwide
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Summary
Join the Wikimedia Foundation as a Staff Security Software Engineer to build new security technologies and protect Wikipedia and other projects. This is a hands-on engineering role working alongside the Product Security team to design and code new features.
Requirements
- +8 years of experience in the software engineering area 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
Responsibilities
- Help design and build MediaWiki security capabilities
- Mentor and lead a security development team
- 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
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