Senior Software Engineer (Privacy)

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity team and build new security features to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role, working alongside a team of engineers and product managers to design and implement new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.

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;
• 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

Benefits

• Remote work option
• Flexible work schedule
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Generous paid time off and vacation days
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Retirement plan with employer matching
• Parental leave and family benefits
• Professional development opportunities
• A supportive and inclusive work environment