Staff Security and Privacy Engineer
Staff Security and Privacy Engineer
Remote
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 110+ 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 staff engineer on the Brave security and privacy team! You will help keep our users safe across Brave’s products, including Brave browser and Brave Search. Responsibilities include:
Security and privacy reviews of Brave browser and Brave Search
Triaging and fixing security reports
Working closely with other teams to design privacy-preserving protocols
Designing and implementing new security and privacy features
Brave is widely-recognized as one of the best browsers for security and privacy, doing industry-leading work with a team that’s a fraction of the size of Big Tech-supported browsers.
Required qualifications
At least 5 years experience (or equivalent) in security or privacy engineering
Experience in penetration testing and/or security auditing
Strong proficiency in C++, both implementing and reviewing
Strong familiarity with the Web security model
Understanding of data protection fundamentals
Very comfortable working and communicating async with a geographically-distributed software development team
Be comfortable diving into an extremely large, unfamiliar and complex codebase
Be comfortable with Git and collaborating on GitHub
Preferred qualifications
Experience contributing to large open source codebases and/or participating in open source communities
Proficiency in Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Proficiency in Go and Rust
Contributions to other Web browsers
Familiarity with Chromium's architecture, especially security
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 security and privacy engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
Unlimited PTO in the US, 20 days + your birthday in Canada and similar PTO policies in countries where we have a presence
Highly competitive salaries & benefits
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!