Senior Software Engineer; Privacy

Overview

Full Time Senior Software Engineer (Privacy) in healthcare at Wikimedia Foundation in Remote. Apply directly through the link below.

At a glance:

• Work mode:
  Hybrid
• Employment:
  Full Time
• Location:
  
  Remote
• Salary: 113k - 176k USD
• Experience:
  
  Senior
  · 5+ years

Core stack:
Design Patterns, Technical Debt, Documentation, Observability, Contributing, Architecture, Social Media, Code Review, Performance, Distributed, JavaScript, Recruiting, Security, Remote, Less, PHP

Is this Senior Software Engineer (Privacy) job remote? Yes, this position is fully remote (Remote).

What is the salary range? The salary range is 113k - 176k USD annually.

What skills are required? Design Patterns, Technical Debt, Documentation, Observability, Contributing, Architecture, Social Media, Code Review, Performance, Distributed, and more.

Timezone preference: GMT-5 through GMT+1

• Helping design, develop, and deliver security features, with safety and security in mind
• Working with other engineering teams to ensure that they make safe and compliant architectural and implementation choices
• Leading by example in code review, decision-making, and team culture — fostering transparency, empathy, and collaboration
• Developing, reviewing, and deploying security features developed by the Foundation and community members
• Conducting internal and external security and privacy reviews
• Performing maintenance and addressing technical debt in security and privacy-critical components
• Providing support for application security and privacy incidents and operations

• 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 Java Script
• 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
• Comfortably and autonomously creating proofs of concept, writing design documents, and breaking down complex projects into actionable tasks to support less experienced team members
• 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
• Experience working in a remote, distributed team

• Experience working on anti-abuse mechanisms, such as detecting bots or coordinated activity
• 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, secure design patterns and privacy by design
• Prior experience with Media Wiki or Wikimedia projects
• Contributions to open-source software

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 host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer,…