Senior Software Engineer – C++ Developer / Browser Engine (UB)

Description We are seeking a highly experienced Senior C++ Engineer to join Bright Data's browser research team, working at the intersection of browser engineering, systems programming, and data extraction - modifying and extending Chromium/WebKit to unlock new capabilities for research and large-scale data collection. Responsibilities • Modify and extend Chromium/WebKit source code for research and data extraction use cases • Build, debug, and reverse-engineer browser engines, internals, and protocols (CDP, DevTools, networking stack) across platforms (Windows, Linux, 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 (significant advantage) • Open-source contributions, especially browser- or devtools-related (significant advantage) • Chromium (significant advantage) • Build tools: depot_tools, GN/Ninja/Siso; architecture: multi-process model, Blink/V8, sandbox, Crashpad • Patch/rebase management for forks; resolving large conflicting merges • Debugging & Tooling: Visual Studio, WinDbg, ETW/xperf, ProcMon; crash dump triage across processes • Nice to have: Linux containers (Docker, containerd, LXC); CI/CD; security hygiene (sandbox, AppContainer, mitigation policies); basic Node.js/JavaScript *Fully remote position(for candidates who are not from Israel). Originally posted on Himalayas