Search Engineer Full Time (Remote)

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 50 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month.

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

Brave Search is looking for talent to make search.brave.com better. Your work will impact the future of search to be used by millions of people. Brave search engine is fully autonomous and independent with its own ranking, crawling and indexes, aiming to offer a true alternative to Microsoft and Google. Plenty of challenges, if that triggers you and feel you can contribute, do not hesitate to apply.

Location

• Anywhere (but there must be a sensible overlap with CET working hours)

An ideal candidate will have a mix of skills that include the following,

• Mastery of Python (Rust and/or Javascript is a plus)
• If you never built a parser for raw html or microdata, this position is not for you.
• Knowledge on Machine learning and classical information retrieval
• Algorithmic mindset
• Familiarity with distributed systems
• Familiarity with AWS environments
• Written and verbal communication skills in English
• Proven record of getting things done
• Can do attitude, team is, and will be small

Example of onboarding tasks:

• Traverse wikipedia articles (millions) to extract a comprehensive list of authors with their works, given the predicate author, return all subjects and objects.
• Find near-duplicates results based on content at query-time

If you think this is too much for an onboarding, this is not for you, if you think this is doable and interesting, please apply now.

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 (no office, no commute)
• 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?