Senior Build Systems Engineer at Brave

<h3 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Senior&nbsp;</strong><strong>Build Systems Engineer</strong></h3> <h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Remote - Anywhere (American timezones preferred)</strong></h4> <h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>About Brave</strong></h4> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">truly</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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 over 128 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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!</span></p> <h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Summary</strong></h4> <p style="line-height: 1.4;">As a colleague (in a team of 8 seniors, each with 15-25+ years of experience) your work will be around reducing toil and building and supporting the automation and processes that enable us to reach 200 million users.</p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;">We have hundreds of builds running every day for over 1000 GitHub repositories (many open source) with languages like C++, Rust, Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Kotlin, Bash/Shell, HCL and many more.</p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;">We ship fast and on multiple desktop and mobile platforms, architectures and distribution channels. Multiple CI systems and acceleration/optimization techniques are used to build the right thing and the thing right.</p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;">Our processes are light and we have no mandatory weekly meetings, 0 on-call, no need to be in an office (unless you really want to) and no strict core hours. Work is autonomous (collaborative at times), asynchronous, flexible.</p> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>10+ years of experience with&nbsp;automation and CI, build and release engineering, testing and reporting tools, code signing, app stores and distribution, packaging (for mobile or desktop apps)</li> <li>extensive and diverse operating system + architecture experience (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows + x86/x64/arm64)</li> <li>AWS + Terraform</li> <li>any combination of Bash/Shell, Python, Kotlin, Groovy</li> <li>AI-positive but able to code and review generated code</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">privacy and security</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">product mindset, interface with multiple teams, see things end to end, lead on best practices</span></li> </ul> <h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Nice to haves</strong></h4> <ul> <li>TeamCity (Kotlin DSL), Jenkins (Jenkins Job Builder)</li> <li>browser or Chromium knowledge</li> <li>gn, ninja, siso, reclient, Remote Execution API, EngFlow, ccache/sccache, custom builds systems</li> <li>Gerrit</li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">automated testing at scale</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">performance testing and tuning</span></li> <li> <div> <div>security and quality scanning, SAST/DAST</div> </div> </li> </ul> <h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Working at Brave</strong></h4> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highly competitive salaries &amp; benefits, and generous home-office stipends</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fully remote team, though we have offices and gatherings in a few locations around the world</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO &amp; co-founder, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">invented</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> JavaScript?</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fully remote or hybrid position. No visa sponsorship provided.</span></p> <h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong><br>Check us out</strong></h4> <p style="line-height: 1.4;"><a href="https://brave.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">brave.com</span></a></p>