Senior Software Engineer – C++, Browser Engine

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🇮🇱 Israel – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Brightidea

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1999

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Productivity • Enterprise

Brightidea is a leading software company that specializes in Idea and Innovation management, providing a platform for organizations to capture, share, and evaluate employee ideas. Their software supports activities such as crowdsourcing challenges and hackathons, enabling companies to drive open innovation and manage a portfolio of initiatives effectively. Brightidea's tools help organizations scale their innovation efforts, ultimately generating substantial financial impacts and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.

📋 Description

• Modify and extend Chromium/WebKit source code for research and data extraction use cases • Build, debug, and reverse-engineer browser engines, internals, and protocols across Windows, Linux, and macOS • Customize, patch, and rebase a Chromium fork • Track and merge upstream changes • Collaborate with engineers, researchers, and product teams to rapidly prototype and ship high-quality changes

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on C++ (C++17/20) • Ability to navigate large codebases and make precise, targeted changes fast • Strong understanding of software architecture in large-scale, cross-platform systems • Deep knowledge of web protocols and browser internals: HTTP/2/3, TLS, CDP, DOM, JavaScript engines • Experience with security research, reverse engineering, or browser automation is a significant advantage • Open-source contributions, especially browser- or devtools-related, are a significant advantage • Experience with Chromium is a significant advantage • Knowledge of build tools: depot_tools, GN/Ninja/Siso • Knowledge of architecture: multi-process model, Blink/V8, sandbox, Crashpad • Patch/rebase management for forks and resolving large conflicting merges • Debugging and tooling experience with Visual Studio, WinDbg, ETW/xperf, and ProcMon • Crash dump triage across processes • Nice to have: Linux containers (Docker, containerd, LXC), CI/CD, security hygiene (sandbox, AppContainer, mitigation policies), and basic Node.js/JavaScript

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote position for candidates who are not from Israel