Senior DevOps Engineer (browser CI/CD + AWS)
Brave
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This remote ok full time position at Brave is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
<h3 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Senior </strong><strong>DevOps Engineer - browser CI/CD + AWS</strong></h3>
<h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Remote - Anywhere (American timezones preferred)</strong></h4>
<h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>About Brave</strong></h4>
<p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">truly</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 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 over 121 million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every year.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">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!</span></p>
<h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Summary</strong></h4>
<p style="line-height: 1.4;">As a colleague (in a team of 8 seniors, each with 15-20+ 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.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4;">We have hundreds of builds running every day for over 1000 GitHub repositories (many open source) with languages like C++, Rust, Go, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Kotlin, Bash/Shell, HCL and many more.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4;">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.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4;">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.</p>
<p style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Requirements</strong></p>
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<li>10+ years of experience</li>
<li>product engineer and continuous improvement mindset, owning and driving work end-to-end and interfacing directly with other teams</li>
<li>AWS + Terraform</li>
<li>automation and CI (ideally for mobile or desktop apps)</li>
<li>responsible AI usage and able to use and review generated code</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">build and release engineering, testing and reporting tools, code signing, app stores and distribution, packaging</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">extended and diverse operating system experience (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows)</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;">Bash/Shell, Python, Kotlin, Groovy</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">privacy and security</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">lead on best practices, PoCs and code for various initiatives which can include features in our browser, search engine or premium products (if interested)</span></li>
</ul>
<h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Nice to haves</strong></h4>
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<li>TeamCity (Kotlin DSL), Jenkins (Jenkins Job Builder)</li>
<li>browser or Chromium knowledge</li>
<li>gn, ninja, siso, reclient, Remote Execution API, EngFlow, ccache/sccache, custom builds systems</li>
<li>Gerrit</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">automated testing at scale</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">performance testing and tuning</span></li>
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<div>security and quality scanning, SAST/DAST</div>
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<h4 style="line-height: 1.4;"><strong>Working at Brave</strong></h4>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Industry-leader in privacy, with a research and engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Highly competitive salaries & benefits, and generous home-office stipends</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fully remote team, though we have offices and gatherings in a few locations around the world</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcoming, humble, ridiculously smart teammates, and a truly flat org structure</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opportunity to get in early at a hyper-growth company, and revolutionize the web</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Oh, and did we mention Brendan, our CEO & co-founder, </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">invented</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> JavaScript?</span></li>
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Tips for South African Applicants
Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.
Application Tips
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