117 applicants

Company

Wikimedia Foundation · 1 day ago

Senior Software Engineer (PHP)

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$105K/yr - $164K/yr

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Responsibilities

Help 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 that 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

Qualification

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Security features developmentObject-oriented PHPClient-side JavaScriptLinux command lineApplication securityAnti-abuse mechanismsSecurity countermeasuresSecurity bugs fixingThreat modelingSecure design patternsExplaining security issuesSensitivity to security challengesRemote working focus

Required

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

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

Company

Wikimedia Foundation

Glassdoor

3.9

Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.

Founded in 2003

San Francisco, California, USA

501-1,000 employees

http://wikimediafoundation.org

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