🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll join the Product Safety and Integrity team at the Wikimedia Foundation to build security features protecting Wikipedia and other projects. Your work will directly impact millions of users by ensuring platform resilience against attacks. You'll operate transparently in a top-10 website environment.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and deliver security features with safety in mind
• Collaborate with engineering teams on secure architectural choices
• Conduct internal and external security and privacy reviews
• Support application security incidents and operations

📋 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer
• Experience working in a modern web application
• Ability to drive technical quality and operational excellence
• Experience developing secure software or security-related features

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with anti-abuse mechanisms like bot detection
• Previous experience building security countermeasures at web/backend/database level
• Knowledge of threat modeling and secure design patterns

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive salary ($113k-$176k)
• 🌍 Remote-first organization
• 📚 Opportunity to work on top-10 website
• 🛡️ Collaborate with talented security team

🚩 Heads Up

• Timezone preference restricts candidates outside GMT-5 to GMT+1
• Requires 5+ years but also expects very specific security expertise
• Mentions salary range but actual offer may vary