Staff Security and Privacy Engineer

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

Requirements:

• 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!