Wikimedia Foundation
Remote
Senior Software Engineer (PHP)
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Security Engineer to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role working alongside our other security team members to design and code new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.
YOU ARE ...a smart developer with experience building security features in large-scale systems. You understand the importance of testing and documentation, and common pitfalls in developing secure web applications. You must have a passion for the WMF mission. We do (almost) everything publicly and the work we do touches thousands of editors every day.
You will be working primarily on our MediaWiki platform which powers Wikipedia. As a top 10 website, we must meet stringent performance standards while addressing new security...