Staff Backend Engineer (Ruby on Rails/AI), Verify

Brave

STAFF SECURITY AND PRIVACY ENGINEER Remote 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 third-party 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 110+ million people have switched to Brave for a faster, more private web. Millions more switch every month. The internet is a sea of privacy-harmful 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 We are hiring a staff engineer on the Brave security and privacy team! You will help keep our users safe across Brave’s products, including Brave browser and Brave Search. Responsibilities include: 1. Security and privacy reviews of Brave browser and Brave Search 2. Triaging and fixing security reports 3. Working closely with other teams to design privacy-preserving protocols 4. Designing and implementing new security and privacy features Brave is widely-recognized as one of the best browsers for security and privacy, doing industry-leading work with a team that’s a fraction of the size of Big Tech-supported browsers. REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS * At least 5 years experience (or equivalent) in security or privacy engineering * Experience in penetration testing and/or security auditing * Strong proficiency in C++, both implementing and reviewing * Strong familiarity with the Web security model * Understanding of data protection fundamentals * Very comfortable working and communicating async with a geographically-distributed software development team * Be comfortable diving into an extremely large, unfamiliar and complex codebase * Be comfortable with Git and collaborating on GitHub PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience contributing to large open source codebases and/or participating in open source communities * Proficiency in Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)  * Proficiency in Go and Rust * Contributions to other Web browsers * Familiarity with Chromium's architecture, especially security * Ability to write clear technical documentation and less technical writing for blog posts or public communication.  * Be excited about privacy, anonymity, and censorship resistance! Working at Brave * Industry-leader in privacy, with an award-winning security and privacy engineering team that’s innovating everyday to keep people safer online and beat Big Tech * Unlimited PTO in the US, 20 days + your birthday in Canada and similar PTO policies in countries where we have a presence * Highly competitive salaries & benefits * Generous home-office stipends * Fully remote team (no office, no commute) with a very-low-meeting culture * 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 Eich, our CEO & co-founder, invented JavaScript? Check us out www.brave.com!

Gitlab

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. *Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. AN OVERVIEW OF THIS ROLE As an Engineering Manager, Git at GitLab, you’ll guide a deeply technical team focused on building, maintaining, and providing expertise on the Git version control system. The team’s work spans upstream development of Git, support for teams across GitLab, new tooling, scalability improvements, new data formats, and ongoing maintenance of the Git codebase. This role is a good fit for you if you can guide senior and staff engineers through complex, long-horizon technical work while building a culture of technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership. You’ll help the team balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities, especially as much of the team’s work is centered on Scaling Git and adjacent foundational work. You’ll work in an upstream-first environment where strong relationships with the Git community matter. Mailing-list based collaboration, clear written communication, and thoughtful technical judgment are central to how this team succeeds. Project areas include: * Scaling Git * Git-related infrastructure and foundational performance work WHAT YOU’LL DO * Manage a team of senior and staff engineers working on the Git version control system and Git-related infrastructure. * Build a team culture where technical rigor, clear accountability, and ownership are the norm. * Drive execution on complex, long-horizon work across performance, scalability, maintainability, and core Git architecture. * Help the team balance upstream open source development with GitLab product and infrastructure priorities. * Support your engineers’ growth through feedback, mentoring, career development, and stretch opportunities. * Foster strong written communication and asynchronous alignment across a fully distributed team. * Partner with downstream teams like Gitaly and other stakeholders who rely on Git expertise for performance, feature design, and roadmap clarity. * Represent the team credibly with cross-functional partners and in stakeholder conversations about Git direction, performance, and scalability. WHAT YOU’LL BRING * Experience managing engineering teams with direct reports, including hiring, performance management, and career development. * A management philosophy centered on building engineer agency and ownership, with credibility grounded in consistency, follow-through, and technical judgment. * Proven ability to guide highly specialized engineers through ambiguity, structured debate, high-stakes technical tradeoffs, and the realities of upstream open source development, including community review and long feedback cycles. * Strong written communication and remote, asynchronous collaboration skills across distributed, multi-timezone teams. You’re comfortable moving work forward in documents, issue threads, and asynchronous reviews, not just in meetings. * A track record of delivering under pressure on ambiguous, long-horizon technical projects with clear outcomes, and of reasoning from fundamentals about maintainability, technical debt, and long-term platform viability. * Hands-on background in version control systems, distributed systems, storage engines, or other low-level infrastructure domains, with the ability to engage credibly with systems code and architecture, ideally in C, Go, or similarly performance-sensitive environments. ABOUT THE TEAM The Git team is focused on building, maintaining, and providing expertise on the Git version control system. Core work includes upstream development of Git, supporting teams across GitLab, fostering the Git community, and ensuring the long-term viability of the project. This is a deeply technical team that operates in an upstream-first environment. Building strong relationships with the Git community, engaging in mailing-list based collaboration, and balancing long-running technical work with practical delivery are central to how the team succeeds. Today, a significant share of the team’s focus is on Scaling Git and adjacent foundational work, with limited remaining capacity outside that effort. HOW GITLAB SUPPORTS FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES * Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being * Flexible Paid Time Off  * Team Member Resource Groups * Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan * Growth and Development Fund * Parental Leave  Please note that we welcome interest from candidates with varying levels of experience; many successful candidates do not meet every single requirement. Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification. If you're excited about this role, please apply and allow our recruiters to assess your application. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Country Hiring Guidelines: GitLab hires new team members in countries around the world. All of our roles are remote, however some roles may carry specific location-based eligibility requirements. Our Talent Acquisition team can help answer any questions about location after starting the recruiting process.   Privacy Policy: Please review our Recruitment Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us. GitLab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. GitLab’s policies and practices relating to recruitment, employment, career development and advancement, promotion, and retirement are based solely on merit, regardless of race, color, religion, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression), national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, mental or physical disability, genetic information (including family medical history), discharge status from the military, protected veteran status (which includes disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans, and Armed Forces service medal veterans), or any other basis protected by law. GitLab will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. See also GitLab’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know during the recruiting process.

Stripe

WHO WE ARE ABOUT STRIPE Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. ABOUT THE TEAM The Premium Merchant Experiences team helps businesses using Stripe succeed by providing high-quality, contextual, and timely premium support options. Our Dublin-based team is a startup within Stripe, building a greenfield product – offering both automated, AI-driven support and improved access to technical experts across Stripe. In addition to building directly for Stripe's merchants, we are responsible for building robust internal tooling that empowers Stripe employees in support roles to deliver the best possible experience for our customers.   WHAT YOU’LL DO As an early hire on the Premium Merchant Experiences team, your role more closely resembles that of a founding engineer at a startup within Stripe. As a Staff Engineer, you will have widespread impact by setting the technical strategy of the team, mentoring and growing senior engineers, and building a culture of technical excellence. As a technical leader within the team, you will both drive fast-paced, sustained product delivery while also upholding high standards for building reliable systems.    Responsibilities: * Design, build, and operate production systems, with an emphasis on extensibility, reliability, and usability * Write and review code regularly, setting the pace and elevating standards for the team * Build high-quality end-to-end product experiences, demonstrating deep care for users' needs and serving as a steward of crafting great experiences * Collaborate with cross functional stakeholders - navigating various types of organizational complexity with the support of your own leadership team * Partner with Engineering Management, Product Manager and key leaders across the company to create and drive toward the longer term vision * Unblock the team to execute against both short-term and long-term roadmaps, making effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user experience, and a sustainable technical foundation * Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes * Teach and mentor other engineers to become the next generation of leaders at Stripe WHO YOU ARE We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS * 10+ years of professional backend or full-stack development experience, including actively writing and reviewing code * Experience successfully setting and executing on long-term technical strategy for a large product area * Ability to prioritize competing requirements and stakeholders to iteratively ship new product features * Proven track record of technical leadership, including meaningfully contributing to the growth of other engineers * Superb communication skills working with technical and non-technical stakeholders * User empathy and a customer-centric approach to problem solving and product development PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS * Experience with full-stack development, particularly using the React framework and Ruby * Desire to learn and grow continuously as an engineer and ship impactful work