# Staff Security and Privacy Engineer

**Company:** [Brave](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/brave)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** C++, Penetration Testing, Security Auditing, Web Security Model, Data Protection, Git, GitHub, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Go, Rust, Chromium
**Posted:** 2026-06-24

> Staff engineer on the security and privacy team responsible for security reviews, triaging reports, designing privacy-preserving protocols, and implementing new security features across Brave browser and Search.

## Job Description

## 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

## Preferred 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
- 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!

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