Senior PHP Engineer — Remote Security Integrations

Jobgether; Ireland; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior PHP Engineer based in Ireland for a remote-first cybersecurity engineering team. You will develop PHP integrations connecting security tools with hosting control panels, CMS like WordPress, and customer portals.

Work involves building plugins, interfaces, and background tasks in a containerized environment. You’ll collaborate across disciplines, tackle complex security challenges, and expand expertise in networking and web security while operating remotely within

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional PHP development delivering long-term software projects.
• Solid understanding of how the World Wide Web works (HTTP, web apps, client-server tech).
• Practical knowledge of web security principles, vulnerabilities, and protective measures.
• Experience developing integrations/plugins/extensions for web platforms, CMS, or hosting panels.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, XML and regular expressions.
• Experience with Git and Docker and modern development workflows (CI/CD).
• Ability to think beyond features to cover scalability, availability, performance and maintainability.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and remote-working skills.
• Nice to have hosting industry experience; Go or C++ familiarity a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, and maintain PHP modules, extensions, and plugins for hosting panels (cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin).
• Build integrations for WordPress and other CMS to ensure security and reliability.
• Design UI elements for hosting panels and customer portals using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Support clients and internal teams with custom PHP portals and plugins.
• Create event handlers and lightweight background apps in containerized environments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align PHP components with security products.
• Participate in full SDLC from design to deployment and maintenance.
• Apply web security best practices to protect applications and services.
• Tackle scalability, availability, and performance challenges with robust solutions.
• Utilize Git, Docker, SQL, XML, regex and CI/CD tooling for delivery.
• Engage in technical discussions and knowledge sharing across teams.
• Continuously learn and adopt new technologies to improve engineering outcomes.

Skills

PHP

Web security

CI/CD

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

Go/C++ familiarity

Tools

Git

Docker

SQL

XML

Regular expressions

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Senior PHP Engineer based in Ireland for a remote-first cybersecurity engineering team. You will develop PHP integrations connecting security tools with hosting control panels, CMS like WordPress, and customer portals.

Work involves building plugins, interfaces, and background tasks in a containerized environment. You’ll collaborate across disciplines, tackle complex security challenges, and expand expertise in networking and web security while operating remotely within