Job Description

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity Team. This role involves developing and maintaining tools to identify and mitigate abuse across Wikimedia projects, designing privacy-conscious systems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to balance safety and freedom of information access.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain abuse mitigation tools
• Design privacy-conscious abuse detection systems
• Adapt abuse detection strategies to evolving standards
• Collaborate with product, design, and research teams
• Write resilient and maintainable code
• Implement observability for system stability
• Measure the impact of anti-abuse measures

Requirements

• 4+ years of professional experience
• Experience with large-scale applications
• Proficiency in PHP, Javascript, and relational databases
• Strong foundation in security principles
• Experience driving cross-team objectives
• Experience driving user and product impact

Benefits

• No benefits