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Software Engineer III (Anti-Harassment Tools) The Wikimedia Foundation
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The Anti-Harassment Tools Team at Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a 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 these people who would use our projects to harm civil discourse, the integrity of the content, or other users of our projects. This includes some light data analysis tools and some enforcement tools.We are seeking a software engineer to join us in this fight to protect our users and our projects. Stopping harassment on our projects is a pillar of our Foundation’s strategy and planning for the future. 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.Helping a volunteer engineer get their code shaped up.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 on a regular basis.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 from the pack!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.Show us your stuff!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. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference.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.
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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 from the pack!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.Show us your stuff!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. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference.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.
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