Key skills
JavaScriptC++CGoRustAWSGitGitHubCommunicationPenetration Testing
About this role
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 reviews of Brave products
- Triaging and fixing security reports
- Designing and implementing security-relevant code
- Penetration tests of Brave products and infrastructure
Requirements:
- At least 5 years experience (or equivalent) in security engineering
- Experience in penetration testing and/or security auditing
- Proficiency in C++, both implementing and reviewing
- Strong familiarity with the Web security model
- Experience securing AWS infrastructure
- 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
- DevOps experience
- 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!