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[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
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