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Senior Software Engineer, Privacy
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Role overview Help improve privacy and security protections in a widely used web browser. This senior engineering role spans anti-tracking and threat intelligence features as well as browser-engine architecture, with an emphasis on performant, maintainable systems code. You’ll work with a distributed team that collaborates asynchronously across Europe and the US East Coast.
Responsibilities - Build browser protections that reduce tracking and help mitigate phishing threats. - Improve the architecture of the browser’s underlying engine. - Deliver efficient, low-latency, maintainable software across C++, Rust, and JavaScript. - Scope complex features, make implementation decisions, and land work within release timelines. - Communicate progress, reasoning, and technical decisions clearly with distributed teammates.
Requirements - A degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. - At least four years programming in C++ and Rust. - Strong grounding in memory safety, multithreaded system architecture, or manipulation of raw data streams. - Ability to ramp up quickly and deliver improvements to complex software projects. - Experience independently scoping and completing substantial features within tight release windows. - Strong written and verbal communication.
Nice to have - Contributions to open-source privacy or browser projects. - Experience with Gecko, Chromium, WebKit, or browser runtime abstractions. - Interest or experience in applying machine learning pipelines to developer workflows. - Knowledge of web architecture, browser privacy and security, client-side data structures, statistical modeling, Python, or SQL.
Benefits and work setup - Remote role based in Germany; listed hiring range is €68,000–€91,000. - Benefits include a performance-based bonus, immediately vested retirement contributions, wellness days, holidays and a birthday day off, home-office and professional-development budgets, parental leave, and country-dependent insurance and support.