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Sr. Software Engineer- Backend, Premium Services

Reposted 4 Days Ago
Remote
3 Locations
150K-200K
Senior level
Remote
3 Locations
150K-200K
Senior level
Responsibilities include improving and scaling backend services written in Go, ensuring performance, and collaborating in a distributed team environment.
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Remote - North America, UK. EU

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 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 90 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.

The internet is a sea of 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

Brave is looking for an engineer who can help us improve and scale our services. VPN, Leo, Talk and others rely on our backend service infrastructure to deliver a private, premium experience to our users. These services are written entirely in Go and deployed as services onto AWS. We are looking for an experienced Go engineer who can take whole solutions from end to end.

Requirements
  • 5-10 years of experience building software professionally
  • Strong proficiency in Go, with 3+ years of production-level experience building backend systems in Go 
  • Experience with SQL, Postgres/Redshift, and building analytics queries
  • Experience building distributed backend services and robust APIs ensuring high performance and scalability
  • Experience with software development via distributed development teams
  • Comfort working in an open source setting
  • A passion for helping protect users’ privacy and security
  • Written and verbal communication skills in English
  • Proven record of shipping
Nice to haves
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (ideally AWS)
  • Familiarity with building and working with subscription and online payment systems
  • Familiarity with challenges in privacy preserving ecosystems
Working at Brave
  • Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
  • Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends
  • Fully remote team (no office, no commute)
  • Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure
  • Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web
  • Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript?

United States Candidates: The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $200,000 USD, depending on experience.

Check us out at brave.com

Top Skills

AWS
Go
Postgres
Redshift
SQL

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