Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy at Brave

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Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy at Brave. . Location: Anywhere. Sr. Software Engineer - Privacy. . Remote - USA, Canada, South America, Europe. . About Brave. . Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We’ve built a free web browser that blocks creepy third-party ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a . truly. independent index, a browser-native crypto wallet, and a private ad network (opt-in!) that directly rewards you for your attention. And we’re just getting started. Already 100 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.. . 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. . We are hiring a member of the Brave browser privacy engineering team to work on browser privacy, security and website compatibility.. . As a senior software engineer working on the privacy team, your responsibilities will include:. . . Prototyping and implementing privacy-enhancing features in C++ for Brave browser (based on Chromium). . Reverse-engineering and debugging parts of the Web (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) that interact badly with Brave’s cutting-edge privacy protections (example: digging into website functionality that breaks because of Brave’s anti-fingerprinting mitigations). . Developing both categorical improvements and fixing individual websites when it comes to privacy and website compatibility for Brave browser. . . Required qualifications. . . Expert in C++ and JavaScript. At least 5 years of experience is preferred. . Happy debugging and reverse engineering complex JavaScript. . 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). . Contributions to other Web browsers. . 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. . Oh, and did we mention Brendan Eich, our CEO & co-founder, . invented. JavaScript?. . . Check us out . www.brave.com. !. .