Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy

Brave; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading privacy-focused technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its privacy team. The role involves async communication with a distributed team and working in a complex codebase. Candidates should have proficiency in web technologies and Git, and a passion for privacy. This is a fully remote position with competitive salaries and benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salaries & benefits

Generous home-office stipends

Low-meeting culture

Qualifications

• Very comfortable working and communicating async with a geographically-distributed software development team.
• Familiarity with Web technologies and the Web security model.
• Be comfortable diving into an extremely large, unfamiliar and complex codebase.
• Proficiency working with Git and comfortable working on GitHub.

Skills

Async communication

Web technologies

Complex codebase navigation

Git proficiency

Job description

Remote - USA, Canada, South America, Europe

About Brave

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

As a senior software engineer working on the privacy team, your responsibilities will include:

Required qualifications

• Very comfortable working and communicating async with a geographically-distributed software development team
• Familiarity with Web technologies and the Web security model
• Be comfortable diving into an extremely large, unfamiliar and complex codebase
• Proficiency working with Git and comfortable working on GitHub

Preferred qualifications

• 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)
• Familiarity with Chromium's architecture
• Familiarity with the adblocking ecosystem
• Experience auditing C++ code for security issues
• 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 privacy 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) with a 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

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