Remote Software Engineer – Product Safety & Integrity

Wikimedia Foundation; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 92,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a software engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity Team. You will build and maintain tools that help communities identify and prevent abuse while designing privacy-conscious systems.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers, designers, and researchers to balance safety and freedom across Wikimedia projects. The position involves working in a mostly remote environment with a UTC-UTC+3 preferred time zone.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software experience.
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale applications.
• Proficiency in PHP and/or JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of relational databases.
• Solid foundation in security principles.
• Experience driving cross-team objectives.
• Experience delivering user and product impact.

Responsibilities

• Proactively develop and maintain tools that empower communities to identify, mitigate, and prevent abuse across Wikimedia projects.
• Design privacy-conscious systems that detect behavioral patterns while minimizing false positives and respecting user anonymity.
• Adapt abuse detection and mitigation strategies to evolving browser privacy standards and platform architecture.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and researchers to balance safety and freedom.
• Write resilient, maintainable code with a focus on long-term sustainability.
• Implement observability to sustain high quality and stability.
• Measure the impact of anti-abuse efforts across Wikimedia projects.

Skills

1+ years experience

Large-scale applications

PHP

JavaScript

Relational databases

Security principles

Cross-team collaboration

User impact

Job description

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a software engineer to join the Product Safety and Integrity Team. You will build and maintain tools that help communities identify and prevent abuse while designing privacy-conscious systems.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product managers, designers, and researchers to balance safety and freedom across Wikimedia projects. The position involves working in a mostly remote environment with a UTC-UTC+3 preferred time zone.