Job Description
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to become a part of the Product Safety and Integrity team, contributing to the development of new security features designed to safeguard Wikipedia and affiliated projects. This hands-on engineering role collaborates with engineers and product managers to create features that reassure users and ensure platform resilience against attacks, focusing on the MediaWiki platform.
The role involves designing, developing, and delivering security features with safety and security in mind, in addition to code review, collaborating transparently, and deploying security improvements developed both internally and externally. The Senior Software Engineer will address technical debt in security-critical components, provide support for application security incidents, and ensure architectural choices made are safe.
Applicants should have 5+ years of experience as a software engineer (ideally with focus on security), be effective in PHP and JavaScript, and capable of reinforcing standards in system reliability whilst autonomously creating proofs of concepts. Experience creating countermeasures against web attacks and familiarity with threat modeling is also highly beneficial.
About Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects.