Desired Skills and Experience
- Protect our users’ reading and editing habits from mass surveillance
- Keep our TLS infrastructure up to date in the face of evolving threats
- Keep track of the ever-changing landscape of browsers and other UAs
- Analyze and optimize our edge software infrastructure to enhance our users’ experiences
- Assess and deploy newer protocols, technologies, and software as their time becomes ripe
- Deprecate older ones in a timely manner while balancing the needs of legacy clients
- Reactively respond to, and proactively engineer against, DDoS and other attacks
- Analyze and advise on application-layer security issues exposed over HTTPS
- Other related Traffic and Security/Privacy work as required
- A deep and current understanding of TLS, HTTP[S], TCP/IP, DNS, and other related protocols
- Hands-on experience working with TLS libraries and HTTP server software configuration
- A working knowledge of modern cryptography from a systems engineering point of view
- Experience working on general infrastructure and application-layer security issues
- Experience with Open Source operations tooling for configuration management, orchestration, and monitoring.
- Experience working on Open Source operations infrastructure in general
- Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in related work experience
- Experience operating TLS-terminating reverse proxy servers at global scale
- Experience operating large web properties at a global scale
- Programmer experience writing and/or modifying network daemons and/or libraries in languages such as C, C++, Go, Python, and/or Rust
- Some knowledge of Linux IPVS load-balancing
- Some knowledge of global IP routing
- Some knowledge of HTTP caching and related CDN technologies
- https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/tls-ciphers
- https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=en.wikipedia.org
- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
- Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
- The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, 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 19 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, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
- 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
- Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
- Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people