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 !