Senior Build/Release/CI Engineer
Brave
Skill Required
Key highlights
- 10+ years of experience required
- Highly competitive salaries & benefits
- Generous home-office stipends
- Team of 8 seniors, each with 15-20+ years of experience
- 0 on-call
- Fully remote (American timezones preferred)
Role overview
Brave is on a mission to protect the human right to privacy online. They have 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 users for their attention. Already over 121 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will join a team of 8 seniors (each with 15-20+ years of experience) focused on reducing toil and building and supporting the automation and processes that enable Brave to reach 200 million users, working across hundreds of daily builds for over 1000 GitHub repositories in languages including C++, Rust, Go, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Kotlin, Bash/Shell, and HCL.
Responsibilities
- Reducing toil and building and supporting the automation and processes that enable reaching 200 million users
- Managing hundreds of builds running every day for over 1000 GitHub repositories (many open source)
- Shipping fast across multiple desktop and mobile platforms, architectures, and distribution channels using multiple CI systems and acceleration/optimization techniques
- Build and release engineering, testing and reporting tools, code signing, app stores and distribution, packaging
- Lead on best practices, PoCs and code for various initiatives which can include features in the browser, search engine or premium products (if interested)
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience
- Product engineer and continuous improvement mindset, owning and driving work end-to-end and interfacing directly with other teams
- AWS and Terraform
- Automation and CI experience (ideally for mobile or desktop apps)
- Responsible AI usage and ability to use and review generated code
- Extended and diverse operating system experience across Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows
- Proficiency in Bash/Shell, Python, Kotlin, and Groovy
- Privacy and security focus
Nice to have
- TeamCity (Kotlin DSL) and Jenkins (Jenkins Job Builder)
- Browser or Chromium knowledge
- Experience with gn, ninja, siso, reclient, Remote Execution API, EngFlow, ccache/sccache, and custom build systems
- Gerrit
- Automated testing at scale
- Performance testing and tuning
- Security and quality scanning, SAST/DAST
Benefits
- Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech
- Highly competitive salaries and benefits
- Generous home-office stipends
- Fully remote team, though offices and gatherings exist 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
- No mandatory weekly meetings
- 0 on-call
- No need to be in an office (unless you really want to)
- No strict core hours
- Autonomous, collaborative-at-times, asynchronous, and flexible work
Additional details
- Senior DevOps Engineer - browser CI/CD + AWS
- Remote - Anywhere (American timezones preferred)
- Fully remote or hybrid position
- No visa sponsorship provided
- Originally posted on Himalayas