Senior Software Engineer - Privacy - Remote

Overview

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!

In Short

• We are hiring a member of the Brave browser privacy engineering team to work on browser privacy, security and website compatibility.
• 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.

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.

Benefits

• Industry-leader in privacy, with an award-winning privacy 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) 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.
• Oh, and did we mention Brendan Eich, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript?