Filterlist Engineer

The Web 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!

We are hiring a member of the Brave privacy team to work on filter list-based ad & tracker blocking.

Brave benefits greatly from open-source ad blocking work, and a huge part of our ethos is contributing the work that we do back to the ad blocking community. We work closely with filter list authors across the board. Most of the work in this position is expected to be open-source; your work will have a Web-wide impact on a daily basis. See our USENIX talk on how we scaled ad blocking to millions of users.

Your responsibilities in this role will include:

• Creating and maintaining Brave’s adblock rules and shipping fast fixes for breaking websites (we do multiple automated deployments an hour!)
• Contributing to open-source ad blocking projects like Easy List or uBlock Origin and making sure Brave users are getting the best ad & tracker blocking experience possible.
• Monitoring and addressing feedback from the community by creating fixes to resolve user-submitted reports.
• Helping the privacy team to come up with novel ways of solving webcompat issues categorically. For example:
  Cookiecrumbler.

• Familiarity with the ad blocking and filter list ecosystem (or willingness to learn).
• You know your way around Dev Tools for reverse-engineering websites, debugging code, and figuring out how web apps tick.
• Very comfortable working and communicating async with a geographically-distributed team.
• Proficiency working with Git and comfortable collaborating on Git Hub.

• Experience with ad blocking rules and filter lists.
• Experience participating in open source communities (almost all of our work at Brave is done in the open on Git Hub).
• Ability to handle conflict in face of competing priorities.
• Familiarity with Web technologies and the Web security model.
• Be excited about privacy, anonymity, and a user-first Web!

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

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