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Sr. Security Engineer
Brave website
Remote
$98k–162k
senior
3 months ago
full-time
quality 8.5/10
closed
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
- Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript?