Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy

Brave • San Francisco, CA

69d

About The Position

Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We've built a free web browser that blocks creepy third-party ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a truly independent index, a browser-native crypto wallet, and a private ad network (opt-in!) that directly rewards you for your attention. And we're just getting started. Already 100 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month. The internet is a sea of privacy-harmful ads, hackers, and echo chambers. Big Tech makes huge profits off our data, and tells us what's true and what's not. Brave is fighting back. Join us! We are hiring a member of the Brave browser privacy engineering team to work on browser privacy, security and website compatibility.

Requirements

• Expert in C++ and JavaScript. At least 5 years of experience is preferred
• Happy debugging and reverse engineering complex JavaScript
• Very comfortable working and communicating async with a geographically-distributed software development team
• Familiarity with Web technologies and the Web security model
• Be comfortable diving into an extremely large, unfamiliar and complex codebase
• Proficiency working with Git and comfortable working on GitHub

Nice To Haves

• Experience contributing to large open source codebases and/or participating in open source communities
• Contributions to other Web browsers
• Familiarity with Chromium's architecture
• Familiarity with the adblocking ecosystem
• Experience auditing C++ code for security issues
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and less technical writing for blog posts or public communication
• Be excited about privacy, anonymity, and censorship resistance!

Responsibilities

• Prototyping and implementing privacy-enhancing features in C++ for Brave browser (based on Chromium)
• Reverse-engineering and debugging parts of the Web (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) that interact badly with Brave's cutting-edge privacy protections
• Developing both categorical improvements and fixing individual websites when it comes to privacy and website compatibility for Brave browser

Benefits

• Highly competitive salaries & benefits
• Generous home-office stipends
• Fully remote team (no office, no commute) with a low-meeting culture
• Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure
• Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees