Software Engineer III, Product Safety & Integrity

What you will do:

• Proactively develop and maintain tools that empower communities to identify, mitigate, and prevent various forms of abuse across Wikimedia projects.
• Design privacy-conscious systems that detect behavioral patterns indicative of abuse while minimizing false positives and respecting user anonymity.
• Continuously adapt abuse detection and mitigation strategies in response to changes in browser privacy standards, networking protocols, and platform architecture.

Skills and experience:

• 1+ years related professional experience building and maintaining large-scale applications.
• Proficiency in PHP, Javascript or similar, and relational databases.
• Strong foundation in security principles and experience driving cross-team objectives.

About the team:

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and researchers to create holistic, human-centered solutions.
• Write resilient, maintainable systems with a focus on long-term sustainability and implement observability for system stability.
• Instrument and measure the impact of anti-abuse across Wikimedia projects.