[Remote] Staff Security and Privacy Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We are hiring a staff engineer on the Brave security and privacy team to help keep our users safe across Brave’s products, including Brave browser and Brave Search.

Responsibilities

• Security and privacy reviews of Brave browser and Brave Search
• Triaging and fixing security reports
• Working closely with other teams to design privacy-preserving protocols
• Designing and implementing new security and privacy features

Skills

• At least 5 years experience (or equivalent) in security or privacy engineering
• Experience in penetration testing and/or security auditing
• Strong proficiency in C++, both implementing and reviewing
• Strong familiarity with the Web security model
• Understanding of data protection fundamentals
• 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
• 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
• 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!

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO in the US, 20 days + your birthday in Canada and similar PTO policies in countries where we have a presence
• Highly competitive salaries & benefits
• 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

Company Overview

Brave Software focuses on increasing browsing speed and safety for users, while growing ad revenue share for content creators. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.brave.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Brave has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.