Staff Software Security Engineer (PHP)

July 25

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Wikimedia Foundation

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Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.

Non-Profit • Free knowledge • Open Source Culture • Internet • Technology

501 - 1000

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

Description

• Build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and other projects • Design and code new features to ensure platform resilience against attacks • Mentor and lead a security development team • Review and deploy security features developed by the Foundation and community members • Work with other development teams to ensure safe architectural choices • Perform security maintenance and address technical debt in security-critical components • Provide support for application security incidents and operations

Requirements

• +8 years of experience in the software engineering area 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 • 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

Benefits

• Competitive and equitable salaries • Inclusive and equitable workplace • Opportunities for learning and growth