Senior Security Engineer
About Brave
Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. We've built a free web browser that blocks creepy third-party ads and trackers by default, a private search engine with a truly independent index, a browser-native crypto wallet, and a private ad network (opt-in!) that directly rewards you for your attention. And we're just getting started. Already 110+ million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.
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!
Summary
We are hiring a staff engineer on the Brave security and privacy team! You will help keep our users safe across Brave's products, including Brave browser and Brave Search. Responsibilities include:
- Security reviews of Brave products
- Triaging and fixing security reports
- Designing and implementing security-relevant code
- Penetration tests of Brave products and infrastructure Brave is widely-recognized as one of the best browsers for security and privacy, doing industry-leading work with a team that's a fraction of the size of Big Tech-supported browsers.
Required qualifications
- 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
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- 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!
About Brave
Brave, founded in 2015 by Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript, and Brian Bondy in San Francisco, develops the privacy-focused Brave Browser and the Basic Attention Token (BAT) ecosystem. The browser blocks trackers and ads by default, offering private search, firewall-VPN and Brave Rewards that share ad revenue with users who opt in. Serving millions of active users across desktop and mobile, Brave also integrates Brave Wallet, a self-custody multichain wallet, and Brave Leo AI assistant. Headquartered in San Francisco with hubs in London and remote globally, Brave is independently funded and champions open-source, Chromium-based development. The team advocates for user ownership of data and attention. Expect a mission-driven culture that values privacy engineering, thoughtful product tradeoffs and building an alternative to surveillance-based browsing.