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 that directly rewards you for your attention. Already 110+ million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web.
Role Overview
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
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
Working at Brave
- Fully remote team with a very-low-meeting culture
- Industry-leading team innovating to beat Big Tech
- Highly competitive salaries & benefits
- Generous home-office stipends
- Welcoming, humble, and a truly flat org structure