Build Systems Engineer
Posted 17 Jun 2020
Advertised as “Senior Build Systems Engineer”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 10+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
No salary listed for this role.
Senior Build Systems Engineer
Remote - Anywhere (American timezones preferred)
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 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 over 128 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
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