Research Engineer Brave Browser

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.