Backend Software Engineer

Role Description

As our resident Chromium expert, you will be responsible for the birth, life, and evolution of our custom browser fork. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you will bridge the gap between low-level systems engineering and scalable backend infrastructure.

• Architecting the Fork: Designing and building a custom Chromium-based browser tailored to Wynd’s specific networking and performance requirements.
• Upstream Mastery: Managing the relentless intake of upstream Chromium releases. You’ll be the gatekeeper, ensuring our custom patches play nice with the latest Google updates.
• Stability & Triage: Owning the "crash-to-resolution" pipeline. You’ll analyze crash dumps, triage issues in the field, and implement robust fixes to ensure five-nines of stability.
• Workflow Engineering: Building the CI/CD and QA infrastructure required to compile, test, and deploy a massive C++ codebase across multiple platforms.
• Performance Optimization: Identifying bottlenecks within the browser engine and optimizing C/C++ code for maximum efficiency and minimal resource footprint.

Qualifications

• C/C++ Mastery: Extensive experience writing high-performance, memory-safe code in C and C++. Understanding the "why" behind the language, not just the "how."
• Chromium Experience: Significant time spent inside the Chromium project (or similar large-scale forks like Brave, Edge, or Electron). Familiarity with GN, Ninja, Blink, and V8.
• Systems Intuition: Understanding of operating system internals (Linux/Windows/macOS), memory management, and multi-process architectures.
• The "Rebase" Mental Strength: Experience managing complex Git workflows, specifically handling large-scale upstream merges and conflict resolutions.
• Infrastructure Mindset: Desire to build a test suite that ensures bugs never return. Comfortable with automated QA and deployment pipelines.

Bonus Points

• Experience with Rust (we love modern systems languages).
• Contributions to the Chromium Open Source Project.
• A background in network protocol engineering or proxy infrastructure.
• Strong opinions on build systems and compiler optimizations.

Benefits

• Opportunity: At the forefront of developing a web-scale crawler and knowledge graph that improves access to public web data and extends the value of AI to the people.
• Culture: A lean team with a high bar, focused on capability and meaningful work. Prioritizing low ego and high output in a fully remote environment.
• Compensation: Competitive salary, benefits, and equity package.