Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join The Browser Company and become a Software Engineer on the Developer Experience Team, building tools and systems to enhance teammate productivity. You will proactively identify and improve inefficiencies in build, test, and release processes, working across various layers of the stack and operating systems. Responsibilities include resolving CI/CD pipeline issues, creating tools to streamline workflows, and contributing to the open-source community. The role requires 6+ years of experience with OS-level tools and build environments, proficiency in modern build systems, and experience with programming languages like Swift, Golang, C++, or Python. The company offers a flexible compensation model, comprehensive benefits (including 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision), 401k, flexible vacation, remote work options, paid parental leave, and a home office stipend. The Browser Company is a remote-first, distributed team with an office in Brooklyn, NY.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience with OS-level tools and build environments, open-source developer tooling, or general low-level systems experience
• You’re passionate about deploying, monitoring, and maintaining core infrastructure like CI/CD
• You're excited about building tools and systems that make other engineers more productive and strive to make them elegant and maintainable
• You have experience creating and improving modern build systems like CMake, MSBuild, Bazel, Buck, or Pants
• You’ve written programs and tools in at least one of the following major programming languages — Swift, Golang, C++, or Python
• You’re pragmatic, motivated by nebulous problems, and excited to work in a startup environment with quick product validation cycles
• We’re primarily focused on hiring in North American time zones and require that folks have 4+ hours of overlap time with team members in Eastern Time Zone

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify inefficiencies across the build, test, and release loops and spearhead projects to make them better
• Work at different layers of the stack and on developer environments across multiple operating systems (we currently have apps on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android)
• Dig into physical and virtualized environments to resolve ergonomic, performance, and configuration issues within our CI/CD pipeline
• Create tools that abstract complexity for our product teams and helps us ship code faster, without sacrificing safety or quality
• Give back to the open source community — we believe in upstreaming our work to benefit the community that we benefit greatly from
• Onboard to the team and our codebase with an onboarding buddy
• Attend a number of onboarding presentations on the company, product, codebase, and culture
• Become familiar with our build, test, and release systems for all of our applications across all our supported operating systems
• Learn or get oriented to our coding languages (Swift, Golang and Python) and our developer environments (Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android)
• Work side-by-side with other engineers on the team to ship a few bug fixes and make small improvements across our codebase and tools
• Be regularly posting feedback about using Dia in our #dogfooding channel
• Be familiar with our dev environments and actively working on projects to make engineers' lives easier with tooling and automations
• Understand our CI/CD pipeline deeply so that you can propose new ways to easily streamline and visualize it for your teammates
• Be familiar with our Swift toolchain, Swift for Windows bindings, and how we integrate with Chromium
• Ship a few improvements to one of our major build systems or tools like our Swift toolchain, VSCode editor, LLDB debugger, or CMake
• Be involved in infrastructure improvement discussions like adding better observability to debug issues in production, how to improve monitor performance regressions, and how to stabilize our updater
• Be involved in company-wide engineering discussions about our architecture, how we do code review, code style, and more
• Be contributing to on-call rotations and jumping into incidents to support the team
• Have proactively shipped projects from conception to launch and helped to scope out future project work for the team
• Be mentoring and pair programming with newer engineers to help them get spun up on the codebase
• Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision - we cover 100% of premiums for employees, and up to 95% for dependents
• 401k plan
• Flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days a year, plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)
• Remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• $1,500 USD home office stipend
• Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate