Senior Build Systems Engineer

Summary As a colleague (in a team of 8 seniors, each with 15-25+ years of experience) your work will be around reducing toil and building and supporting the automation and processes that enable us to reach 200 million users. We have hundreds of builds running every day for over 1000 GitHub repositories (many open source) with languages like C++, Rust, Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Kotlin, Bash/Shell, HCL and many more. We ship fast and on multiple desktop and mobile platforms, architectures and distribution channels. Multiple CI systems and acceleration/optimization techniques are used to build the right thing and the thing right. Our processes are light and we have no mandatory weekly meetings, 0 on-call, no need to be in an office (unless you really want to) and no strict core hours. Work is autonomous (collaborative at times), asynchronous, flexible. Requirements 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 haves 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 Working at Brave Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that is innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech Highly competitive salaries and 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