Senior Software Security Engineer

4 days ago

San Francisco, California, United States Wikimedia Foundation Full time
Job Title: Senior Software Security Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Security Engineer to join our Product Security team at the Wikimedia Foundation. As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in designing and building new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects.

About the Role

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering with a focus on security. You will be responsible for reviewing and deploying security features developed by the Foundation and community members, working with other development teams to ensure they make safe architectural and implementation choices, and performing security maintenance and addressing technical debt in security-critical components.

Responsibilities
  • Design and build MediaWiki security capabilities
  • Review and deploy security features developed by the Foundation and community members
  • Work with other development teams to ensure 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
Requirements
  • Strong software engineering experience 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
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
About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely.

We are a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based in over 40 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 105,309 to US$ 163,646 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire.

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