Security and Privacy Engineer

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!

• Triaging and fixing security reports
• Working closely with other teams to design privacy-preserving protocols
• Designing and implementing new security and privacy features

• 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 Git Hub Preferred qualifications
  • Experience contributing to large open source codebases and/or participating in open source communities
  • Proficiency in Go and Rust
  • 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!
  Working at Brave
  • Industry-leader in privacy, with an award-winning security and privacy engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
  • 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