Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy (C++)

We are hiring a senior member of the Brave privacy engineering team! You will work on privacy and security features in the browser that bring cutting-edge protections to 100M+ users without breaking the Web. The main responsibility of this role is prototyping, implementing and shipping privacy-enhancing features end-to-end in C++ for Brave browser (based on Chromium).

• Expert in C++. At least 5 years of experience is preferred
• Proficiency in Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Very comfortable working and communicating async with a geographically-distributed software development team
• Familiarity with the Web security model
• Be comfortable diving into an extremely large, unfamiliar and complex codebase
• Proficiency working with Git and comfortable working on GitHub, * 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)
• Contributions to other Web browsers
• Familiarity with Chromium’s architecture
• 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 very-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
• Oh, and did we mention Brendan Eich, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript?