Senior Software Engineer - Trust & Safety

August 6

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Wikimedia Foundation

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Non-profit • Education • Media

Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the growth, development, and distribution of free, multilingual content. It provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge, including hosting Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created, edited, and verified by a global community of volunteers. Supported primarily through donations, Wikimedia Foundation promotes collaborative projects that aim to share knowledge reflecting human diversity and strives to protect everyone's right to access free and open knowledge.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

📋 Description

• Proactively develop and maintain tools for abuse identification across Wikimedia projects. • Design privacy-conscious systems for detecting abuse while respecting user anonymity. • Continuously adapt abuse detection strategies per changes in standards and protocols. • Collaborate cross-functionally to create human-centered safety solutions. • Write resilient and maintainable systems with high-quality code. • Implement observability for system stability.

🎯 Requirements

• 4+ years related professional experience • Experience building and maintaining large-scale applications • Proficiency in PHP, Javascript and relational databases • Strong foundation in security principles • Experience in driving cross-teams objectives • Experience in driving user and product impact • Familiarity with abuse fighting or security concerns • A history of open source contributions • Familiarity with editing Wikipedia, Wikitext, Markdown, or using content management systems

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% remote work environment • Teamwork and close collaboration • Competitive and equitable salaries • Inclusive and equitable workplace with diverse backgrounds encouraged to apply