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Senior Software Engineer at Contique Global, Remote. Design and implement new features to protect users and ensure platform resilience against attacks. Requires 5+ years of experience, web application development, and interest in security.

This is a very hands-on engineering role, working alongside a team of engineers and product managers to design and implement new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks. You are responsible for: Helping design, develop, and deliver security features, with safety and security in mind Working with other engineering teams to ensure that they make safe and compliant architectural and implementation choices Leading by example in code review, decision-making, and team culture — fostering transparency, empathy, and collaboration Developing, reviewing, and deploying security features developed by the Foundation and community members Conducting internal and external security and privacy reviewsPerforming maintenance and addressing technical debt in security and privacy-critical components Providing support for application security and privacy incidents and operations

Skills and Experience: 5+ years of experience as a software engineer, ideally with focus on security or privacy Ability to work effectively in a modern web application – ours is mostly PHP and JavaScript Deep PHP experience isn’t required, if you have enough experience in engineering, and back-end web development, to learn it and be useful Driving technical quality and operational excellence by defining and reinforcing standards in testing, observability, and system reliability; Comfortably and autonomously creating proofs of concept, writing design documents, and breaking down complex projects into actionable tasks to support less experienced team members Experience in developing secure software or security and privacy-related product features A strong interest in working with a talented security team and learning more specialist security skills such as exploiting and mitigating application-level vulnerabilities Ability to explain complex security issues and their implications on privacy and risk to non-technical audiences Sensitivity to the security and privacy challenges faced by participants in a large, international project