Helping design, develop, and deliver security features, with safety and security in mind
Working with other engineering teams to ensure that they make safe and compliant architectural and implementation choices
Leading by example in code review, decision-making, and team culture — fostering transparency, empathy, and collaboration
Developing, reviewing, and deploying security features developed by the Foundation and community members
Conducting internal and external security and privacy reviews
Performing maintenance and addressing technical debt in security and privacy-critical components
Providing support for application security and privacy incidents and operations

Requirements

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
Driving technical quality and operational excellence by defining and reinforcing standards in testing, observability, and system reliability
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
A strong interest in working with a talented security team and learning more specialist security skills such as exploiting and mitigating application-level vulnerabilities
Ability to explain complex security issues and their implications on privacy and risk to non-technical audiences
Sensitivity to the security and privacy challenges faced by participants in a large, international project
Experience working in a remote, distributed team.

Benefits

Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PHPJavaScriptsoftware engineeringback-end web developmentsecurity features developmenttechnical debt managementapplication securityprivacy reviewstesting standardssystem reliability

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationtransparencyempathycommunicationproblem-solvingmentoringautonomyadaptabilitysensitivity to security challenges