Senior Software Engineer, The Browser Company
Security
$240-300k
Salary only applicable to US applicants + Equity
More information about location
Building Arc, a new web browser
Job no longer available
Building Arc, a new web browser
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$240-300k
Salary only applicable to US applicants + Equity
More information about location
101-200 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
- 5+ years leading large-scale security projects with a focus on security engineering
- Proficiency in programming languages (such as Golang, Swift, Python, etc.),
- You have experience conducting security reviews for application and infrastructure changes
- You have excellent communication skills and are able to work cross-functionally with Legal and IT to develop and implement new security policies and procedures
- You care deeply about user privacy and are vigilant about mitigating risks
- You have experience working across a variety of complex codebases
- You have experience tech leading critical projects or initiatives within your team and organization
- You have at least 4 hours of overlap time with team members located in Eastern Time Zone
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer, Security at The Browser Company, you will be at the forefront of building a new security paradigm for AI-powered web interaction
- As part of a pioneering team, you’ll design the security architecture for our next-generation AI assistant and lead critical R&D work to create a robust, forward-looking security framework
- You’ll also support our foundational security needs, enabling us to scale safely while innovating in areas like threat modeling, AI risk mitigation, and data protection
- This role will require a blend of hands-on engineering and high-level strategy, working closely with our CTO and senior architects to secure our infrastructure and build systems, and more to protect our users and their data
- Own and evolve our security strategy, balancing R&D for our AI assistant’s security framework with proactive risk mitigation for both employees and users
- Work with the engineering team to build a new security sandbox that protects our assistant from emerging threats, ensuring secure AI interactions on the web
- Build security critical infrastructure that powers the future of AI-powered web interactions
- Conduct threat modeling for systems and features, especially those interfacing with untrusted sources, to preemptively mitigate security risks
- Partner with engineers to incorporate security best practices into new features, with a focus on protecting AI functionality from prompt injections, jailbreaks, and other vulnerabilities
- Design and manage security strategies unique to AI technologies, supporting incident responses and enhancing the assistant’s resilience
- Develop and uphold security policies and procedures across the organization, support compliance efforts, and lead incident response
- After 1 month you will..
- Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy
- Receive a number of onboarding presentations on how we give each other feedback, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more
- Get familiar with our application, infrastructure, data stores, and existing security policies
- Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase
- Have pair programmed with a portion of the engineering team
- After 3 months you will..
- Be the point of contact for security reviews across some portion of our codebase
- Understand the AI threat landscape and mitigate major AI security hazards or prompt injections
- Deploying new security infrastructure to enable product to develop secure by default
- Have a strong grasp on our security needs and start prioritizing which projects we need to move forward
- Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel
- After 6 months you will..
- Conduct security reviews across our server and client repositories
- Collaborate with engineers to figure out how to bake security into our architecture
- Own part of our security strategy and prioritize security projects to move forward
- Own our security policies and procedures, and ensure we adhere to them
- Support and lead security incident responses across the organization
- Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company
Application process
- Deadline: 3 February 2025 at 05:00 GMT
Our take
The browser is a universal piece of technology, enabling people to access all that they want from the internet. However, the browser itself is often ignored, and despite all the changes to other software over the years, it has remained relatively unchanged. The Browser Company is building a new browser named Arc; designed to think quicker, reduce user work, and facilitate the modern way in which the internet is used.
The Browser Company, founded in 2019, sees an opportunity to create a browser that excites. Currently, brand dedication for browsers is limited, as they are designed to act in the background, which keeps their performance issues in the background as well. The Browser Company aims for Arc to be intelligent, and overcome problems such as 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 by creating a browser that is dramatically new and more powerful, which will create its own space in the market through uniqueness in performance.
The Browser Company’s browser was released for mobile and Windows in 2024 and has been met with positive reviews. The company has raised impressive funds that will contribute to the further development of Arc and the release of Dia - an AI-focused browser - set to be released in 2025.
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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 values
- Show up with heartfelt intensity
- Start with "what could be?"
- Assume you don't know
- You're on the hook for the team
- Make them feel something
Company HQ
SoHo, New York, NY
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Leadership
Josh Miller
(CEO)Board Member at Patreon. Co-Founder and former CEO of Branch.com. Former Director of Product for The White House.
Hursh Agrawal
(Engineering)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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