Staff Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Cloud & Build Platform
$225-275k
+Equity
More information about location
Web browser developer
Job no longer available
Web browser developer
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$225-275k
+Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build a better web browser— one that enables people to build their own home on the internet, and arms them with the tools they need to be more focused, organized, and in control.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience leading critical projects or initiatives within large, complex infrastructure
- Proficiency in a programming language like Python, Go, C++, etc
- Experience working with GCP, AWS, or Azure, with significant expertise in at least one of these
- Experience utilizing monitoring and observability for our cloud infrastructure and using these tools to deliver quality of life improvements for your team
- Mastery of CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc
- You're passionate about building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive and strive to make them elegant and maintainable
- You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on the Cloud & Build Platform Team, you’ll make decisions that will enable the team to build quickly and safely
- Your expertise in developer tooling will ensure Arc is available to millions of users who rely on our desktop and mobile apps to do their best work
- With the Developer Experience Team, you'll own our multi-cloud environment and improve our existing build systems for Mac, Windows, iOS and Android
- Scope and spearhead technical projects across our Windows, Mac, iOS, Chromium, and Swift toolchain builds
- Manage and deploy new hardware and software for CI systems
- Monitor and optimize our CI/CD pipelines to ensure engineers stay productive
- Build and maintain our AWS, GCP, and Azure infrastructure using Terraform
- Identify opportunities to iterate on our architecture to improve efficiency, developer productivity, and reduce cost
- After 1 month you will..
- Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy
- Attend a number of onboarding presentations on our product journey, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more
- Get familiar with our use of Terraform, Ansible, AWS, GCP, Azure, DataDog, GitHub Actions, and other tools
- Have shipped a few fixes and infrastructure adjustments
- After 3 months you will be..
- Collaborating with folks across the team to adapt our build runners to the needs of our product and infrastructure engineers
- Enhancing our infrastructure monitoring to manage uptime and costs
- Engaged in architecture, code review, code style, and other important discussions
- Proposing infrastructure improvements to make our systems simpler, clearer and faster
- Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team
- Providing consistent feedback in the appropriate product specific dogfooding Slack channels
- After 6 months you will be..
- Engaging with our security engineers to improve security of our infrastructure
- Trained as an interviewer and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company
- Deploying improvements to our infrastructure via Terraform and other appropriate tools
- Leading projects from conception to launch, working cross functionally as needed
- Mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase
Application process
- Deadline to Apply: December 25, 2024 at 7:00 AM GMT
Our take
Web browsers enable people to access all that they want from the internet. However, this tool is often ignored, and despite all the changes to other software over the years, it has remained relatively unchanged. The Browser Company delivers Arc and Dia - new web browsers designed to be faster as well as more personal, focused and creative than traditional options.
Founded in 2019, The Browser Company sees an opportunity to create a browser that excites. Brand dedication for the more common browsers is limited, as they are designed to act in the background. Instead, The Browser Company wants Arc and Dia to act intelligently, visibly overcoming problems like overwhelming hits, online distraction and information being hidden under irrelevant results.
Its competitors of course include some of the biggest names in tech, but it hopes to stand out with a browser that is dramatically new and more powerful, which will earn its own unique space in the market. Arc was released for mobile and Windows in 2024, followed by the AI-focussed Dia in 2025, and they have so-far been met with positive reviews.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2024
$50m
LATE VC
Jan 2023
$56.8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $136.8m
Company benefits
- Choose-Your-Own-Compensation Plan: When we give you a job offer, we’ll actually give you two different offers — one that is focused on having a higher salary and one focused on higher equity. Candidates can choose either offer (or any numbers in-between) when they accept.
- Best in the Biz Insurance: We provide employees with full coverage medical, vision, and dental insurance and a free One Medical membership to help you keep you and your family healthy. We cover 100% of employee plan costs and up to 90% for dependents.
- Napping During the Workday: Some of us are better in the mornings, others are more productive in the afternoon. People should take breaks when they need to. If you’re on our team, we trust you to get your work done — our policy is: work when it makes sense for you!
- Take Time Off, Please!: We believe that people do their best work when they’ve rested and had valuable time off. So rather than having a maximum number of days off, we actually have a recommended minimum vacation of 20 days a year. Take time off when you need it and also just when you feel like it.
- Extremely Flexible Parental Leave: We are proud to offer an extremely flexible 12 weeks of parental leave — for any parent regardless of gender and for birth, adoption, surrogacy, or fostering. Take the 12 weeks all at once, or split up days to slowly transition back to work — we’re accommodating to everyone’s different situations! Birth mothers also qualify for an additional 6 weeks of medical leave.
- Design Your Dream Home Office: We are a remote first company. About half of our team currently lives outside of New York and across 5 different time zones. So if you need some stuff to make working from home a bit easier, we offer a $1000 stipend for anything you need to get comfortable.
- Cozy Office in Brooklyn, Wooo!: If you do happen to live in the New York area (or you want an excuse to visit) you can come into our beautiful office in Williamsburg. Coming into office is entirely optional, some of us come almost every day and some of us come in once a week. No obligation, we just genuinely like each other!
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
Leadership
Josh Miller
(CEO & Co-founder)Board Member at Patreon. Co-Founder and former CEO of Branch.com. Former Director of Product for The White House.
Hursh Agrawal
(CTO & Co-founder)Principal/Owner of Enso Code. Former Interim CTO of Thirty Madison and of Jumprope. Co-founder and previous CTO of Zinc.
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