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Staff Software Engineer

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The Anti-Harassment Tools Team at Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to work with us to build features that help identify and stop harassment on all of our Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. This role is full-time, 100% remote, and global.The Anti-Harassment Tools Team is an interdisciplinary product team developing tools that help administrators and staff in their efforts to combat harassment on our projects. This includes some light data analysis tools and enforcement tools.We are seeking a software engineer to join us in this fight to protect our users and our projects. Stopping harassment is a pillar of our Foundation’s strategy. This is important, highly visible work. Currently, we are working on a broad set of tools related to user privacy and protection.Your daily work will include contributing new patches or pull requests for existing features, generating requirements and prototypes for new features, estimating new work, collaborating with a designer, or helping a volunteer engineer shape their code. The team is fully staffed with a Product Manager, Engineering Manager, Product Designer, Research Analyst, Data Analyst, Community Liaison, Test Engineer, and several Software Engineers.Because of the sensitive nature of the tools we build, our work is highly collaborative and heavily tested. We interact with database administrators, security engineers, and other teams regularly.Responsibilities

Develop, test, and deploy new features, improvements, and upgrades to various systems and tools used by administrators and staff.Work with Foundation staff and volunteers on software design, development, testing, and evaluation of potential technical solutions.Ensure positive and constructive discussions with the community and the Foundation.Work and communicate effectively within a small team distributed across multiple time zones.Requirements

In addition to the basic skills needed for being successful, these skills could set you apart:Experience with MediaWiki development or as a contributor to Wikimedia projects.Experience with unit testing and integration testing and agile methodologies.Any other free/open source software development experience is highly welcome.Understanding of the free culture movement.Experience with machine learning or AI technologies.Experience with online community moderation or anti-harassment tools.If you have any existing open source software that you’ve developed (these could be your own software or patches to other packages), please share the URLs for the source. Links to GitHub, etc. are exceptionally useful. This is optional and your candidacy will not be negatively impacted if you don’t have public work to share.The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@wikimedia.org or (415) 839-6885.Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families.The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body, and soul activities such as fitness memberships, babysitting, continuing education, and much more.The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary.Flexible and generous time off – vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 22 paid holidays – including the last week of the year.Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy.For those emergency moments – long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary), and an employee assistance program.Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation, and parking expenses.Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available.Paid travel to Wikimedia Foundation events all around the world!Equipment including a laptop, monitor, plus a one-time stipend to cover any additional needs.Great colleagues – diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world.

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