Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy (C++)

Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy (C++)

Remote - USA, Canada, South America, Europe

About Brave

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!

Summary

We are hiring a senior member of the Brave privacy engineering team! You will work on privacy and security features in the browser that bring cutting-edge protections to 100M+ users without breaking the Web. The main responsibility of this role is prototyping, implementing and shipping privacy-enhancing features end-to-end in C++ for Brave browser (based on Chromium). 

Brave is widely-recognized as the best browser for privacy, so you’ll be doing some of the most impactful work of your life here. Example features our team ships: automatic HTTP upgrades, novel privacy-enhancing permissions (that fix real-world exploits years ahead of other browsers) and best-in-class anti-fingerprinting protections. We’re doing industry-leading work with a team that’s a fraction of the size of Big Tech-supported browsers. Read more on Brave’s blog.

Required qualifications

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

Preferred qualifications

• Experience contributing to large open source codebases and/or participating in open source communities (almost all of our work at Brave is done in the open on GitHub)
• Contributions to other Web browsers
• Familiarity with Chromium's architecture
• 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!

Working at Brave

• 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 very-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?

Check us out www.brave.com!