Senior Build Systems Engineer

Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote
Experience
Lead / principal · 10+ years

Job description

Senior Build Systems Engineer at Brave, working in a team of eight seniors to reduce toil and build and support the automation and processes needed to reach 200 million users. The role covers CI, build and release engineering across many repositories and platforms.

At a glance

Work mode
Remote

What you'll do

  • Reduce toil and build and support the automation and processes that enable us to reach 200 million users

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience with automation and CI, build and release engineering, testing and reporting tools, code signing, app stores and distribution, packaging (for mobile or desktop apps)
  • Extensive and diverse operating system + architecture experience (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows + x86/x64/arm64)
  • AWS + Terraform
  • Any combination of Bash/Shell, Python, Kotlin, Groovy
  • AI-positive but able to code and review generated code
  • Privacy and security
  • Product mindset, interface with multiple teams, see things end to end, lead on best practices

Nice to have

  • TeamCity (Kotlin DSL), Jenkins (Jenkins Job Builder)
  • Browser or Chromium knowledge
  • Gn, ninja, siso, reclient, Remote Execution API, EngFlow, ccache/sccache, custom builds systems
  • Gerrit
  • Automated testing at scale
  • Performance testing and tuning
  • Security and quality scanning, SAST/DAST

Benefits

  • Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends
  • Fully remote team, though we have offices and gatherings in a few locations around the world
  • 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

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About Brave

A free web browser that blocks creepy ads and trackers by default

Brave has 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. Already over 128 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web.

Mission

Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online.

Key facts

  • Privacy-focused web browser and internet technology
  • Over 128 million people have switched to Brave
  • Hundreds of builds running every day for over 1000 GitHub repositories
  • Fully remote team, though we have offices and gatherings in a few locations around the world
  • No visa sponsorship provided
  • Brendan, CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript

What they value

  • Privacy
  • Security
  • Asynchronous and flexible work