Sr. Software Engineer

Brave; North America; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company focusing on privacy is looking for an experienced engineer skilled in Go to improve and scale services like VPN and Talk. The role involves backend infrastructure management and requires a strong foundation in distributed services and database management. Competitive salary of $150,000 - $200,000 USD depending on experience; fully remote work environment.

Benefits

Highly competitive salaries & benefits

Generous home-office stipends

Fully remote team

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience building software professionally.
• Strong proficiency in Go, with 3+ years of production-level experience building backend systems in Go.
• Experience with SQL and building analytics queries.
• Experience building distributed backend services and robust APIs ensuring high performance.

Responsibilities

• Help improve and scale our services.
• Contribute to backend service infrastructure for VPN, Leo, Talk, and others.
• Take whole solutions from end to end.

Skills

Go

SQL

Distributed backend services

APIs

Open source development

Tools

AWS

Postgres

Redshift

Job description

The internet is a sea of 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

Brave is looking for an engineer who can help us improve and scale our services. VPN, Leo, Talk and others rely on our backend service infrastructure to deliver a private, premium experience to our users. These services are written entirely in Go and deployed as services onto AWS. We are looking for an experienced Go engineer who can take whole solutions from end to end.

Requirements

• 5-10 years of experience building software professionally
• Strong proficiency in Go, with 3+ years of production-level experience building backend systems in Go
• Experience with SQL, Postgres/Redshift, and building analytics queries
• Experience building distributed backend services and robust APIs ensuring high performance and scalability
• Experience with software development via distributed development teams
• Comfort working in an open source setting
• A passion for helping protect users’ privacy and security
• Written and verbal communication skills in English
• Proven record of shipping

Nice to haves

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
• Familiarity with building and working with subscription and online payment systems
• Familiarity with challenges in privacy preserving ecosystems

Working at 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)
• 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

United States Candidates: The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000 USD, depending on experience.

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