Wikimedia Foundation Company Announcing the availability of 4 vacant jobs in Sultanate of Oman تعلن شركة مؤسسة ويكيميديا ​​عن توفر 4 وظيفة شاغرة في سلطنة عمان

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Application Security Engineer to join the Security team working to help protect Wikipedia and our other projects. You'll be working with other developers and security engineers to create new security features, review the security of other people's code, and help find and fix security bugs before they're exploited.

YOU ARE ...a smart security practitioner with experience building and auditing security features in large-scale systems. You understand the importance of testing and documentation, and common pitfalls in developing secure web applications. You must have a passion for the WMF mission. We do (almost) everything publicly, and volunteers can add arbitrary JavaScript to our site.

You will be working primarily on our MediaWiki platform which powers Wikipedia. As a top 10 website, we must meet stringent performance standards while addressing new security challenges such as supporting modern authentication technologies, detecting and preventing platform abuse from bots, and planning and rolling out improvements to our security architecture by defending against emerging security threats.

Triage and remediate reported security issues

Review and deploy features developed by the Foundation and community members

Work with other development teams to ensure that they make safe architectural and implementation choices

Constantly poke and abuse our software to find bugs before attackers do

Provide application security concept reviews and help socialize application security best practice

Provide support for application security incidents and operations

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Staff Security Software Engineer to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role working alongside our other security team members to design and code new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.

YOU ARE ...a smart developer with experience building security features in large-scale systems. You understand the importance of testing and documentation, and common pitfalls in developing secure web applications. You have a passion for the WMF mission. We do (almost) everything publicly and the work we do touches thousands of editors every day.

You will be working primarily on our MediaWiki platform which powers Wikipedia. As a top 10 website, we must meet stringent performance standards while addressing new security challenges such as supporting modern authentication technologies, detecting and preventing platform abuse from bots, and planning and rolling out improvements to our security architecture by defending against emerging security threats.

Help design and build MediaWiki security capabilities

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 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

The right person is better than the right set of experiences, these are the traits we’ve identified that make great additions to our team so far.

+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

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, reporting to the Sr. Engineering Manager. As the Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and executing on the long-term engineering strategy in collaboration with the product team. You will contribute heavily to the high impact challenges behind innovating, building, and maintaining Wikipedia’s data feeds for high volume reusers. In this role, you will foster cross team collaboration where necessary to address business goals, keep the team moving quickly by designing and implementing necessary tools and services, and guide the team on best practices for software engineering and infrastructure reliability.

Wikimedia Enterprise is a new, revenue-generating product that provides fast, comprehensive, reliable, and secure data ingestion for organizations that wish to repurpose Wikimedia/Wikipedia content in third party environments. Wikimedia Enterprise aims to improve the user experience for Wikimedia/Wikipedia readers beyond our own websites; increase the reach and discoverability of Wikimedia/Wikipedia content; and improve awareness and ease of attribution and verifiability of Wikimedia/Wikipedia content by the organizations that reuse our content the most. You can learn more about the project in WIRED and Insider.

We are a distributed and diverse team of engineers with a drive to explore, experiment, and embrace technologies. We act sort of like a startup within the Wikimedia Foundation: we build quickly, deploy often, and our work has a very high impact on the global knowledge ecosystem. If you are up to the challenge of working on something fast paced, of creating services that will revolutionize the systems distributing our knowledge for billions of people across the world, and enjoy the idea of working with a globally distributed team, you might be just the person we need.