Senior DevOps/WebOps Engineer

Senior DevOps/WebOps Engineer

Remote in US timezones

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 65 million people have switched to Brave for a faster more private web. Millions more switch every year.

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

As a DevOps/WebOps engineer your work will be around building and supporting the infrastructure and processes that enable us to reach 100+ million users and scale 10x and beyond.

Our tech stack: AWS Azure Fastly Jenkins GitHub Actions Docker Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Packer JavaScript Go Rust Ruby Python Kotlin C++ Bash/Shell PowerShell New Relic Sentry BetterStack Uptime Elasticsearch Kafka MongoDB MySQL Postgres Redis Android iOS Linux (Ubuntu Debian Fedora) macOS Windows and many more.

As a Senior DevOps/WebOps Engineer you will...

• ensure our web services stay up and continuous delivery processes stay green

• build migrate improve and secure cloud infrastructure and services

• develop code to test automate deploy and manage services and applications

• manage production environments and be available to assist out of hours

• work independently but also collaborate and be proactive in assisting colleagues

• build PoC and continuously optimize processes

• research for the best practices be resourceful in interfacing with different teams and roles

Requirements

• tuning CDNs caching policies TLS certificates high availability and traffic proxying rate limiting firewalls cost optimization

• experience with AWS services like EC2 ECS EKS Cloudfront S3 VPC Lambda WAF

• familiar with CI pipelines as code using Jenkins and GitHub Actions

• exposure to Terraform (or CloudFormation Pulumi CDK)

• mindful about privacy and security

Nice to haves

• cryptocurrency or blockchain experience

• build and release engineering

• automated testing experience at scale

• crawling scraping data mining

• analytics and data pipelines

• performance testing and tuning

• security audits pentesting blue/red team

• web development

This position is for US timezones and available only for candidates based in North/South America or the Caribbean. No visa sponsorship provided.

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 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

• Oh and did we mention Brendan our CEO & co-founder invented JavaScript?

Compensation for this role is 120K to 150K in the United States market rate in other locations.

Check us out

LinkedIn | brave.com