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# Software Developer for Anti-Censorship Team

- **Company:** The Tor Project, Inc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Internet Security, Software Project Management
- **Published:** July 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.torproject.org/fr/about/jobs/software-developer-anticensorship-2/

## About the Role

* Familiarity with Internet security and censorship circumvention technologies in China and other censored countries.
 * Experience with designing, implementing, testing, and reviewing complex codebases (ideally in Go).
 * Ability to work in a self-directed and independent way.
 * Comfortable with working remotely, across time zones.
 * Strong familiarity with computer science fundamentals., * Experience and intuition about censorship in China, including knowing how to reach Chinese internet user communities to discuss circumvention approaches.
 * Familiarity with reading research papers and turning research ideas into prototypes.
 * Understanding of the Tor pluggable transport ecosystem and the censorship circumvention research space.
 * Past contributions to and familiarity with the practices of free software projects.
 * Passion and dedication to Internet freedom is an added plus.
 * Proficient at reading and writing Simplified Chinese.

## Description

This role will work on the anti-censorship technologies at Tor. A personal commitment to free and open source software and the application of advanced programming skills for the greater good is essential.


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