Sr. Software Engineer

Brave • New York City, NY

201d • $150,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Brave is looking for an engineer who can help us improve and scale our services. VPN, Leo, Talk and others rely on our backend service infrastructure to deliver a private, premium experience to our users. These services are written entirely in Go and deployed as services onto AWS. We are looking for an experienced Go engineer who can take whole solutions from end to end.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of experience building software professionally
• Strong proficiency in Go, with 3+ years of production-level experience building backend systems in Go
• Experience with SQL, Postgres/Redshift, and building analytics queries
• Experience building distributed backend services and robust APIs ensuring high performance and scalability
• Experience with software development via distributed development teams
• Comfort working in an open source setting
• A passion for helping protect users' privacy and security
• Written and verbal communication skills in English
• Proven record of shipping

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
• Familiarity with building and working with subscription and online payment systems
• Familiarity with challenges in privacy preserving ecosystems

Benefits

• Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that's innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
• Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends
• Fully remote team (no office, no commute)
• 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

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees