Staff Software Security Engineer (PHP)
Job Description
Hiring in the following European locations: Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Staff Security Software Engineer to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. This is a very hands-on engineering role working alongside our other security team members to design and code new features to protect and reassure our users and to ensure the platform remains resilient against attacks.
YOU ARE ...a smart developer with experience building security features in large-scale systems. You understand the importance of testing and documentation, and common pitfalls in developing secure web applications. You have a passion for the WMF mission. We do (almost) everything publicly and the work we do touches thousands of editors every day.
You will be working primarily on our MediaWiki platform which powers Wikipedia. As a top 10 website, we must meet stringent performance standards while addressing new security challenges such as supporting modern authentication technologies, detecting and preventing platform abuse from bots, and planning and rolling out improvements to our security architecture by defending against emerging security threats.
You are responsible for:
- Help design and build MediaWiki security capabilities
- Mentor and lead a security development team
- Review and deploy security features developed by the Foundation and community members
- Work with other development teams to ensure that they make safe architectural and implementation choices
- Perform security maintenance and address technical debt in security-critical components
- Provide support for application security incidents and operations
Skills and Experience:
The right person is better than the right set of experiences, these are the traits we’ve identified that make great additions to our team so far.
- +8 years of experience in the software engineering area with a focus on security
- Ability to work effectively in a modern, object-oriented PHP code-base
- Experience developing client-side JavaScript
- Experience in developing secure software or security-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
- Patience in explaining security issues and their implications on privacy and risk to non-technical audiences
- Sensitivity to the security challenges faced by participants in a large, international project
- Experience using Linux at the command line for tasks related to web application development and deployment
- Ability to maintain focus when working remotely
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
- Experience working on anti-abuse mechanisms such as CAPTCHA and bot detection
- Previous experience building security countermeasures against attacks on technologies at the web, backend, and database level
- Experience finding and fixing security bugs and reviewing code for security gaps
- A working knowledge of threat modeling and secure design patterns
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that 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 freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
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. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.
The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries*. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$129,347 to US$ 200,823 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.
*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America and Uruguay. Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).
We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.
All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.
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 [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.
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Senior Product Designer
About Perspective
Our mission is to enable passionate people to grow the businesses they love. We are doing this by helping 5.000+ entrepreneurs with the fastest and easiest growth marketing platform. So you work work directly impact thousands of entrepreneurs & their customers.
We're 100% bootstrapped & profitable. With less than 40 people we were able to scale our company to over €10M ARR. Now we are on our journey towards 100M ARR – and we believe by staying a small team with highly talented people we will get there fastest. 🌟
We're in an exciting phase, expanding internationally and maturing our product and culture at the same time. We prioritize great execution and high impact - we strive for highest quality in what we do, as we believe the world doesn’t need more mediocrity.
We foster a culture of ownership and freedom in a fully remote environment across Europe, enabling us to build the lives we want while making maximal impact. Come join our team of extraordinary people! 🚀
About the role
As Senior Product Designer at Perspective, you will become part of one of the fastest growing bootstrapped SaaS. Influence and define the interface of our software and have huge impact on the customers experience. Your valued expertise will help to make the easiest marketing software there is to build websites. Join the ride while we go international and collaborate in a team of experts. And on top: enjoy working from anywhere in Europe as we are fully remote. We can't wait to talk to you. 🤩
What you will be doing
- Write and build feature concepts (e.g. understand the status quo of problem and solutions, build empathy for a topic/the market/user needs and business goals, interview users and stakeholders)
- User interface design (e.g. design high-fidelity screen states & visuals, guide the implementation towards release)
- Create prototypes (e.g. visualise solution ideas, design low fidelity user flows, validate usability and impact, evaluate and iterate solutions with stakeholders by testing MVPs)
- Design visuals for UI (Use graphic design to fill empty states, create promotional graphics for feature releases)
- Guide the (UI) implementation (Be the pro-active part in collaboration with stakeholders from ideation to post-release; feature is not done after design is finished)
- Research solutions (Get confronted with issues and challenges around software, have a process to turn it into opportunities and provide solution suggestions)
- Enhance design process (Define principles, enhance activities for more efficiency & joy; stay modern and collaborative in how we create designs)
Who you are
- You are experienced in designing software interfaces as well as user interactions
- You understand the importance and benefits of market research, user interviews, and user tests and have successfully used it in order to validate hypotheses
- Working with and coordinating between engineering, business, marketing, and support is natural to you
- You are experienced in coordinating meetings, brainstormings and presenting ideas & concepts to your team
- You understand the necessity of good usability and are experienced in reducing complex challenges to simple solutions
- You are an authentic, empathic and optimistic person
- You are proactive, reliable, loyal and keen to take on responsibility
- While having a good eye for detail, you don't loose sight of the bigger picture
- You are honest, cordial and strive in working with amazing teams
- You have prior experience of working in a software company, ideally SaaS
- You can strive in an agile startup environment
Nice to have
- You have prototyped software features – ideally for a website editor
- You have experience in areas like Copywriting, Graphic Design & Illustration or Software Development
- You have Marketing experience & knowledge, especially in regards to Online Marketing
- You have a good understanding of production workflows in a software product environment
- You have experience working on SaaS products, ideally a website builder
If you think this job is the right job for you, even though you do not perfectly match the profile, we would still love to hear from you. 🤗
What you can expect at Perspective
- Remote & Freedom | We strongly believe that every work environment needs to be ideal and fitted to the person. For this very reason, all our team members work remotely – in their own much needed way. That’s how we can ensure that all our talents have much freedom to create the best results possible.
- Responsibility, Ownership & Impact | At Perspective, all our team members have a voice. We value every opinion and encourage all to speak their mind. Only with team effort, we can create something great. We believe in our team and therefore, give them much responsibility. Even if we fail, we learn from it, get back up and continue to succeed. It is part of the game and we know it.
- Personal & Professional Growth | Your development is our priority. With our intensive onboarding, feedback talks and trainings, we foster your personal and professional development. One of our core value is “Keep Growing” which we portray in everything we do.
- Best Equipment & Remote Budget | Our company is build on the USP of quality and we want to keep it that way. To keep up the quality, we only provide the best equipment to our team: For example, every new team member receives an Apple MacBook Pro for their work and a monthly remote working budget.
- Team Events | We know working solely remotely can make it difficult to build a strong team spirit. However, at Perspective we focus deeply on team building by hosting various team events throughout the year. We understand the need of interaction face-to-face and strongly encourage it.
- Cordial & passionate team | Last, but not least, we are the most cordial team you can imagine. We love working together, respect each other and always value each others opinions. We care deeply about our team members and are always down for a good virtual after work hangout.
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Account Manager
We are looking for an enterprise account manager in Europe to help expand relationships with our existing enterprise customers.
Day-to-day, you will work with marketing agencies and Fortune 1000 companies to onboard and consult on SEO best practices and and scale their use of the Ahrefs platform.
This role is a hybrid sales & customer success role which will be incentivized by renewal & upsell opportunities. However, unlike other organizations, you won’t be bound to aggressive sales metrics as everyone’s bonus is also awarded against overall company performance.
What You'll Do
- Build deep relationships with our enterprise customers to retain, grow and develop product evangelists
- Create and implement strategic account plans that align with customer objectives and drive increased engagement and product utilization.
- Consult organizations on SEO best practices to help them reach measurable results.
- Devise and conduct onboarding training
- Lead upsell and account renewal discussions
- Monitor customer health and identify any potential risks
- Act as a customer advocate to ensure feedback is heard and acted upon
- Contribute to ideas that will improve department performance
The skills you need
- Excellent written & spoken communication skills
- Skills in creating educational content and conducting webinars or workshops for customers.
- A creative problem solver who can take initiative and make decisions
- Knowledge and hands-on experience with SEO and digital marketing trends.
- 3 - 5 years of customer success, sales, or account management
- Experience at a marketing SaaS company or SEO/digital marketing agency.
What you get
- A competitive compensation package
- Flexible work hours and lots of autonomy
- Plenty of potential to experiment, grow and build your authority in the space
- Annual team retreat
Ahrefs does not engage with agencies or third party recruitment solutions for the roles we hire for. If at any point we need help, we'll let you know!
Who we are
Ahrefs runs an internet-scale bot that crawls the whole web 24/7, storing huge volumes of information to be indexed and structured in a timely fashion. Our backend system is powered by a custom petabyte-scale distributed key-value storage to accommodate all that data coming in at high speed. With this data, Ahrefs builds analytics services for end-users in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) space and a web-scale search platform. We are a lean and robust team who strongly believe that better technology leads to better solutions for real-world problems.
Our motto is first do it, then do it right, then do it better
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Affiliate Marketing Manager
About Perspective
Our mission is to enable passionate people to grow the businesses they love. We are doing this by helping 5.000+ entrepreneurs with the fastest and easiest growth marketing platform. So you work work directly impact thousands of entrepreneurs & their customers.
We're 100% bootstrapped & profitable. With less than 40 people we were able to scale our company to over €10M ARR. Now we are on our journey towards 100M ARR – and we believe by staying a small team with highly talented people we will get there fastest. 🌟
We're in an exciting phase, expanding internationally and maturing our product and culture at the same time. We prioritize great execution and high impact - we strive for highest quality in what we do, as we believe the world doesn’t need more mediocrity.
We foster a culture of ownership and freedom in a fully remote environment across Europe, enabling us to build the lives we want while making maximal impact. Come join our team of extraordinary people! 🚀
About the role
In this role, you'll be at the forefront of building and managing a network of successful entrepreneurs, growing your influence and personal brand along the way. You'll lead the entire partnerships & influencer marketing strategy, creating real connections, adding value, and shaping your success story as you drive both personal and company growth.
What you will be doing
- Affiliate Content: create and distribute content to educate affiliates on building recurring revenue, including monthly keynotes with top affiliates and tactical videos on strategies
- Influencer Marketing: develop influencer marketing as a growth channel by sponsoring creators who align with our audience, driving customer acquisition through targeted content
- Partner/Affiliate Program: define and implement a Partner Program that incentivises partners to resell Perspective, managing the process through Partnerstack
- Partner Acquisition: lead partner acquisition efforts by engaging new partners through outreach, building a referral network, and leveraging in-app marketing & communities
Who you are
- 3-5+ years of experience as an Influencer Marketing Manager, Affiliate Manager, or similar role in a B2B SaaS Product company
- Proven experience in outreach, partner acquisiton or influencer marketing, with a track record of building and expanding partner networks through cold outreach and automated strategies
- Strong tenacity and boldness in driving results, with the ability to push through challenges and seize opportunities in a fast-paced environment
- Skilled in content creation, including the ability to develop engaging and educational materials for partners, such as keynotes, videos, and written content
- Deep understanding of the marketing industry its principles, especially as to what the market is paying attention to, so you can effectively drive partner and influencer relationships
- Solid sales mindset, with a focus on driving conversions and business growth through strategic partnerships and influencer collaborations.
- Fluent in German & English
If you think this job is the right job for you, even though you do not perfectly match the profile, we would still love to hear from you. 🤗
What you can expect at Perspective
- Remote & Freedom | We strongly believe that every work environment needs to be ideal and fitted to the person. For this very reason, all our team members work remotely – in their own much needed way. That’s how we can ensure that all our talents have much freedom to create the best results possible.
- Responsibility, Ownership & Impact | At Perspective, all our team members have a voice. We value every opinion and encourage all to speak their mind. Only with team effort, we can create something great. We believe in our team and therefore, give them much responsibility. Even if we fail, we learn from it, get back up and continue to succeed. It is part of the game and we know it.
- Personal & Professional Growth | Your development is our priority. With our intensive onboarding, feedback talks and trainings, we foster your personal and professional development. One of our core value is “Keep Growing” which we portray in everything we do.
- Best Equipment & Remote Budget | Our company is build on the USP of quality and we want to keep it that way. To keep up the quality, we only provide the best equipment to our team: For example, every new team member receives an Apple MacBook Pro for their work and a monthly remote working budget.
- Team Events | We know working solely remotely can make it difficult to build a strong team spirit. However, at Perspective we focus deeply on team building by hosting various team events throughout the year. We understand the need of interaction face-to-face and strongly encourage it.
- Cordial & passionate team | Last, but not least, we are the most cordial team you can imagine. We love working together, respect each other and always value each others opinions. We care deeply about our team members and are always down for a good virtual after work hangout.
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Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack
Phantom is revolutionizing the way millions of people interact with the crypto ecosystem. Our self-custodial wallet offers a seamless, unified experience for managing accounts and tokens across Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polygon, empowering users with a single, convenient solution. By integrating cutting-edge security features and launching innovative tools for an enhanced personalized user experience, Phantom is able to provide a next-generation, safe and easy to use self-custodial wallet for everyone. This strategy has allowed Phantom to achieve significant milestones including surpassing 7 million MAU’s, reaching #1 in the Google play store finance category, and consistently trending as a Top 50 app across all categories, right next to X, PayPal, Coinbase, and ChatGPT.
Responsibilities
As a full-stack engineer at Phantom you’ll be doing everything from building delightful user interfaces and creating cross-platform client infrastructure on the frontend, to creating APIs, data pipelines and services that bridge the gap between the blockchain and the user experience our users have come to expect on the backend.
- Feature development: You will be owning features on our web platforms – currently the Phantom Extension and our website.
- New initiatives and products: You will be leading initiatives to add support for other blockchains to Phantom, and to launch new complementary products or infrastructure.
- Interfacing with users: You will be interfacing directly with end-users and developers building on Phantom – supporting them and collecting feedback to inform the direction of the product.
- Team building: You will be working with the team to create and foster a culture of raising the bar with each new hire.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years full-time software engineering experience
- Demonstrated interest in open and community-driven platforms
- Nice-To-Have: experience in a blockchain based project
- English language proficiency
Why Work with Us
Opportunity
We are a team of experienced builders in the blockchain and crypto industry. Our journey began from users seeking an easy, seamless path to accessing the crypto ecosystem. This passion fueled our exponential growth, allowing us to onboard over 7M+ active users in just over three years; with our user base growing weekly. Our dedication to a secure and seamless user experience has made us the leading wallet on Solana as well as our multi-chain approach enhances our platform's versatility, meeting the needs of a diverse and growing user base. By staying at the forefront of technology and user expectations, we continue to innovate and set industry standards on self-custodial crypto wallets.
There has never been a better time to work in crypto to help shape the future of innovation with a focus around the wallet experience!
- First impressions matter: Wallets are responsible for a users first impression with crypto and onboarding new users into crypto. By ensuring that a user has a great first-time experience with crypto, we can help supercharge the growth of the entire ecosystem.
- Make crypto easier to navigate: There is no easy way for a user to discover and navigate all that crypto has to offer. Wallets have a unique opportunity to help users not only onboard to crypto but also stay retained by exploring new things to do.
- We live in a multi-chain world: We currently support Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin with more networks to come in the new future. We are focused on creating a unified, multi-chain crypto experience for users.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision) — 100% covered
- Stipend for your ideal remote set-up
- Flexible hours and a supportive remote environment
- Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!)
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Monthly wellness benefit
- Weekly meal benefit
- Global off-sites
We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply.
We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Phantom, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
The target base salary for this role will range between $180,000 to $220,000 with the addition of equity and benefits. This is determined by a few factors including your skillset, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews and market factors (such as location) at the point in time of offer.
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