<p> <strong>Search Engineer - Backend<br>Remote</strong> </p><h4> <strong> <br>About Brave </strong> </h4><p> <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> </p> <p> <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> <strong> <br>Summary </strong> <h4> <span style="font-weight:400;">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.</span> </h4> </h4><p> <span style="font-weight:400;">As a backend engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining high performance backend systems to solve many fascinating problems - from autocomplete / spell correction to custom inverted indices for web search.</span> </p> <h4> <strong> <br>Requirements </strong> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Advanced knowledge of Python.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Experience with technologies such as Kafka, Rocksdb, AWS.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Experience running and debugging systems in production environments.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Strong algorithmic background.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Ability to work fast and under tight deadlines.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Enjoys system design challenges, can build and maintain systems end-to-end.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Written and verbal communication skills in English</span> </li> </ul> <h4> <strong> <br>Nice to haves </strong> <ul> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Remote work experience</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Proficiency in Rust / C++ or a willingness to learn.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Experience with MRJob, Apache Spark, Luigi, Jenkins or similar systems.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Familiarity with Distributed systems and information retrieval</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Practical machine learning experience.</span> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Linux internals.</span> </li> </ul> </h4> </h4><p> <strong> <br>Location -EU Location Preferred <br> <strong> <span style="font-weight:400;">Anywhere, but European timezones preferred (or at least a significant overlap with European timezones).</span> </strong> <h4> <strong> <br>Working at Brave </strong> <ul> <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 (no office, no commute)</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> </li> </ul> </h4> <p> <span style="font-weight:400;"> <br> <span style="font-weight:400;">United States Candidates: The salary range for this role is $70,000 - $200,000 USD, depending on experience.</span> </span> </p> <h4> <strong> <br>Check us out </strong> </h4> <p> <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/brave-software/mycompany/"> <span style="font-weight:400;">LinkedIn</span> </a> <a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Brave-EI_IE2159279.11,16.htm"> <span style="font-weight:400;">Glassdoor</span> </a> <a href="https://brave.com/"> <span style="font-weight:400;">brave.com</span> </a> </p> <p> <strong> <span style="font-weight:400;"> <br> <br> <br> </span> </strong> </p> </strong></p>