Software Engineer III, Product Safety & Integrity (Remote)

Wikimedia Foundation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Software Engineer III to join the Product Safety and Integrity Team. This role offers a mostly-remote work environment with a focus on building privacy-conscious, scalable tools to detect and prevent abuse across Wikimedia projects.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and researchers to balance safety and freedom, write robust code, and measure the impact of anti-abuse efforts across platforms.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale applications.
• Relational databases proficiency.
• Strong security fundamentals.
• Experience driving cross-team objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain anti-abuse tooling across Wikimedia projects.
• Design privacy-conscious systems with low false positives.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and researchers.
• Write resilient, maintainable code for long-term sustainability.
• Implement observability and monitor system health.
• Instrument and measure anti-abuse impact.

Skills

Large-scale apps

Relational databases

Security fundamentals

Cross-team collaboration

User impact focus

Job description

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Software Engineer III to join the Product Safety and Integrity Team. This role offers a mostly-remote work environment with a focus on building privacy-conscious, scalable tools to detect and prevent abuse across Wikimedia projects.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and researchers to balance safety and freedom, write robust code, and measure the impact of anti-abuse efforts across platforms.