Brave News Backend Engineer
Core
Building and maintaining the backend infrastructure for Brave News, a news aggregation product serving 30+ million monthly users.
Role type
Backend Engineer (Data & ML focus)
Builds
News content aggregation system, data pipelines, and reliability monitoring tools
Domain
News technology, data engineering, machine learning
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Python, RSS parsing, web scraping, statistical analysis, machine learning, system monitoring, privacy engineering
Preferred skills
AWS, Docker, publisher ecosystem knowledge, advertising ecosystem knowledge
Technologies
Python, RSS, AWS, Docker
Responsibilities
Implement data-driven approaches using statistical and machine learning methods; develop and maintain content sources via RSS and scraping; ensure system monitoring and reliability; contribute to open source projects; implement privacy and security measures
Seniority
Mid-level, hands-on IC