Sr. Security Engineer

Company: Brave

Location: Remote

Salary: $98K–$162K

Type: Senior level, 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. Already 110+ million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.

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.

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

• Security reviews of Brave products
• Triaging and fixing security reports
• Designing and implementing security-relevant code
• Penetration tests of Brave products and infrastructure

Required Qualifications

• At least 5 years experience (or equivalent) in security engineering
• Experience in penetration testing and/or security auditing
• Proficiency in C++, both implementing and reviewing
• Strong familiarity with the Web security model
• Experience securing AWS infrastructure
• 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
• DevOps experience
• 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!

Why Join Brave?

• Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that's innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
• Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends
• Fully remote team (no office, no commute)
• Minimal meetings
• 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