<h3><strong>Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy</strong></h3> <p>Remote - USA, Canada, South America, Europe</p> <h3><strong>About Brave</strong></h3> <p>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 <em>truly</em> 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 100 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.</p> <p>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!</p> <h3><strong>Summary</strong></h3> <p>We are hiring a member of the Brave browser privacy engineering team to work on browser privacy, security and website compatibility.</p> <p>As a senior software engineer working on the privacy team, your responsibilities will include:</p> <ul> <li>Prototyping and implementing privacy-enhancing features in C++ for Brave browser (based on Chromium)</li> <li>Reverse-engineering and debugging parts of the Web (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) that interact badly with Brave’s cutting-edge privacy protections (example: digging into website functionality that breaks because of Brave’s anti-fingerprinting mitigations)</li> <li>Developing both categorical improvements and fixing individual websites when it comes to privacy and website compatibility for Brave browser</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Required qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Expert in C++ and JavaScript. At least 5 years of experience is preferred</li> <li>Happy debugging and reverse engineering complex JavaScript</li> <li>Very comfortable working and communicating async with a geographically-distributed software development team</li> <li>Familiarity with Web technologies and the Web security model</li> <li>Be comfortable diving into an extremely large, unfamiliar and complex codebase</li> <li>Proficiency working with Git and comfortable working on GitHub</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience contributing to large open source codebases and/or participating in open source communities (almost all of our work at Brave is done in the open on GitHub)</li> <li>Contributions to other Web browsers</li> <li>Familiarity with Chromiums architecture</li> <li>Familiarity with the adblocking ecosystem</li> <li>Experience auditing C++ code for security issues</li> <li>Ability to write clear technical documentation and less technical writing for blog posts or public communication. </li> <li>Be excited about privacy, anonymity, and censorship resistance!</li> </ul> <p><strong>Working at Brave</strong></p> <ul> <li>Industry-leader in privacy, with an award-winning privacy engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech</li> <li>Highly competitive salaries &amp; benefits, and generous home-office stipends</li> <li>Fully remote team (no office, no commute) with a low-meeting culture</li> <li>Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure</li> <li>Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web</li> <li>Oh, and did we mention Brendan Eich, our CEO &amp; co-founder, <em>invented</em> JavaScript?</li> </ul> <p>Check us out <a href="http://www.brave.com">www.brave.com</a>!</p> <p> </p>