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?

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