Avaaz reaches tens of millions of citizens every week with opportunities to change the world. This includes protecting our planet from climate change and other threats, fighting to stop social media from undermining our democracies, and deepening human connection.
Some of the things we’ve been working on are...
A system for citizens to report disinformation ahead of the EU and US elections
Reporting on how YouTube’s recommendation algorithm promotes climate denial
Connecting citizens stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic
Providing our campaigns team with detailed statistics to measure campaign success
Improving our architecture and modernizing our legacy software stack.
Specific responsibilities include:
Design, implement and build security solutions across all technology that Avaaz runs.
Identify and apply relevant security best practices across Avaaz applications and infrastructure.
Provide continued compliance of the organization with applicable security and data protection standards (e.g. GDPR, PCI).
Provide security advice on proposed new technologies, projects and campaigns.
Perform security monitoring/operations tasks and incident response.
Identify new security solutions and tools to improve Avaaz security.
Lead staff security education and security awareness training and campaigns.
Avaaz is a fully virtual organisation, coordinating work using email, Skype and other tools. Our staff are based all over the world. Applicants from any timezone may apply. Avaaz will support you to set up a home or co-working environment that leads to excellence in delivery and long-term sustainability.
Compensation varies with location and experience, but is highly competitive with leading nongovernmental organisations. Benefits also range with location, but include 5 weeks paid vacation per year (prorated as applicable).
Avaaz is changing the world, and we’ll give you the means to change it, too. Our team is a place to exercise your creativity and your leadership, while building never-before-seen tools for one of the world’s top online activism organisations. You can let your imagination run wild figuring out how to grow the platform and tools, improve rapid-iterative processes and integrate new technologies.
We are a nimble team working on creating opportunities to bring about the world most people everywhere want -- one of justice, peace, and freedom. The work environment is quite unique: whether you’re in the office or working from home, our collaborative culture ensures everyone is heard and treated respectfully, with a strong focus on personal development.
Our tech build comprises the latest technologies (cloud computing, distributed systems, big data) using great languages (Python, PHP, JS) with proven and cutting-edge datastores (MySQL, Redshift, MongoDB, Redis, Memcache). At Avaaz, your work will have an impact on a huge scale: we have more than 40 million members, who have taken over 200 million actions, told over 500 million friends about Avaaz campaigns and donated more than $50 million online.
Our global and distributed tech team creates beautiful, efficient code that works across browsers, platforms and localisations. It’s backed by developers with a proven track record of designing, building and debugging large web applications.
We’re roaming the world in the search for challenge-driven hard-working developers and senior developers with excellent spoken and written communication in English who are able to adapt and learn, with talents for creativity and abstract thinking. The quest is for people who fit that profile; we know specific skills can always be trained and developed.
We are currently hiring senior developers and devops engineers in the Americas, EU and African timezones.
Salary is competitive in the non profit space with generous benefits but we can not match corporate tech salaries.
We're a global activism organization, dedicated to effecting positive change in the world. We tackle such issues as climate change, poverty, and corruption. For more information, check here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/about.php#howwework We are in the process of extracting microservices from a large legacy php codebase. We primarily use python for new systems. We operate at "big data" scale, with 40+ million members, and hundreds of millions of events per month. We value professionalism, autonomy, and healthy work-life balance.
Some of the things we’ve been working on are...
A system for citizens to report disinformation ahead of the EU and US elections Reporting on how YouTube’s recommendation algorithm promotes climate denial Connecting citizens stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic Providing our campaigns team with detailed statistics to measure campaign success Improving our architecture and modernizing our legacy software stack.
Specific responsibilities include:
Design, implement and build security solutions across all technology that Avaaz runs. Identify and apply relevant security best practices across Avaaz applications and infrastructure. Provide continued compliance of the organization with applicable security and data protection standards (e.g. GDPR, PCI). Provide security advice on proposed new technologies, projects and campaigns. Perform security monitoring/operations tasks and incident response. Identify new security solutions and tools to improve Avaaz security. Lead staff security education and security awareness training and campaigns.
Avaaz is a fully virtual organisation, coordinating work using email, Skype and other tools. Our staff are based all over the world. Applicants from any timezone may apply. Avaaz will support you to set up a home or co-working environment that leads to excellence in delivery and long-term sustainability.
Compensation varies with location and experience, but is highly competitive with leading nongovernmental organisations. Benefits also range with location, but include 5 weeks paid vacation per year (prorated as applicable).