Research and Privacy Engineer

We are hiring a member of the Brave browser research and engineering team to work on browser privacy and security.

As a research engineer, your responsibilities will include:

• Prototyping, measuring, and implementing novel privacy enhancing technologies in Brave browser
• Assisting and / or conducting publication-focused research on Web privacy and security
• Building and maintaining crawlers for Web measurement and privacy-focused list curation purposes
• Modifying our open source fork of Chromium to improve performance

Required qualifications:

• Proficiency in C++ and JavaScript. At least 5 years of experience is preferred
• Proficiency working with Git
• Comfortable working with a geographically-distributed software development team.
• Familiarity with Web technologies and the Web security model.
• Be comfortable diving into an unfamiliar and complex codebase

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience contributing to open source codebases and/or participating in open source communities. (Almost all of our work at Brave is done in the open on Github.)
• Contributions to other browsers
• Familiarity with Chromium's architecture.
• Experience auditing C++ code for security issues.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation.
• Be excited about privacy, anonymity, and censorship resistance!
• Interest or experience with research and publications
• This is a full-time role and would report to the Direct of Privacy and the Chief Scientist.