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<h1>The Tor Project is looking for a Browser Hacker!</h1>
<h2>(Posted 22 Nov 2013)</h2>
<p>
Your job would be to work on the C++ patches to our <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/">Firefox-based
browser</a>,
writing new APIs and altering functionality for privacy and security, and
making improvements to our collection of Firefox and Thunderbird addons. This
would be a contract position spanning 9-12 months, with the possibility of
future continuation. You will also be working closely with our existing
browser hackers, and with the new extension developer. If you also have
<a href="<page about/jobs-extdev>">extension
developer</a> experience, please feel free to apply to both positions.
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All candidates must:
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<li>Have experience in C++ and ideally Javascript. Five years of C++
experience is probably necessary for the level of expertise we want, though
some of these years can be replaced with other Object Oriented Programming
and/or C experience. If you meet this level of experience with C++/OOP,
Javascript can be learned on the job.</li>
<li>Have a solid understanding of issues surrounding secure C++ programming
and reference counted memory (at least to the level of avoiding issues).</li>
<li>Be comfortable and experienced with repeatedly diving into new,
unfamiliar codebases, looking for ways to alter and augment their
functionality in specific, goal-oriented ways.</li>
<li>Be at least passingly familiar with web technologies and how the
web works, especially the same-origin model and web tracking.</li>
<li>Be comfortable and experienced justifying and documenting technical
decisions for a public, world-wide technical audience.</li>
<li>Be comfortable working remotely.</li>
<li>Be comfortable and experienced with interacting with users and other
developers online. Have thick enough skin to survive occasional trolling
from either group.</li>
<li>Be comfortable with transparency: as a non-profit, everything we do is in
public, including your name (or at least your business name) and yearly
payment amount.</li>
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An ideal candidate would also:
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<li>Already be familiar with writing addons for Mozilla Firefox or other
web browsers.</li>
<li>Already be familiar with writing patches for Mozilla Firefox or
other web browsers.</li>
<li>Already be familiar with compiling software for the Android
platform.</li>
<li>Be capable of insanely creative yet also ruthlessly pragmatic
thinking.</li>
<li>Be familiar with probability, statistics, and information theory.</li>
<li>Know enough about networking to be able to visualize what HTTP
1.1 looks like on the wire while encapsulated within Tor's network
protocol.</li>
<li>Have experience with open-source software development, including
working with distributed teams across different time-zones containing
employees and volunteers of differing skill levels over multiple mediums,
including email, instant messaging, and IRC.</li>
<li>Have basic familiarity with distributed version control systems.</li>
<li>Have contributed significant chunks of code to multiple open-source
projects in the past.</li>
<li>Genuinely be excited about Tor and our values.</li>
</ul>
<p>
Detailed job description:
</p>
<blockquote>
<p>
Being a Tor Browser Hacker includes triaging, diagnosing, and fixing
bugs; looking for and resolving web privacy issues; responding on short
notice to security issues; and working collaboratively with coworkers
and volunteers on implementing new features and web behavior changes.
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<p>
We'd also need help making our code more maintainable, testable,
and mergeable by upstream. Sometimes, we need to drop everything and
scramble to implement last-minute fixes, or to deploy urgent security
updates. You'd also be reviewing other people's code, designs, and
academic research papers, and looking for ways to improve upon them.
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<p>
For an even more detailed overview of the full breadth
and depth of the work you'd be doing, have a look at <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/">The
Design and Implementation of the Tor Browser</a>, especially <a
href="https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#DesignRequirements">The
Design Requirements</a> section.
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<p>
Other notes:
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<ul>
<li>Tor developers can work from wherever you want, in
basically any country. We have an office in Cambridge, MA if you
prefer. We coordinate via IRC, email, and bug trackers.</li>
<li>Academic degrees are great, but not required if you have
the right experience.</li>
<li>We only write free and open source software, and we don't
believe in software patents.</li>
</ul>
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How to apply:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Link to a sample of code you've written in the past that
you're allowed to show us.</li>
<li>Provide a CV explaining your background, experience, skills,
and other relevant qualifications.</li>
<li>List some people who can tell us more about you: these
references could be employers or coworkers, open source projects,
etc.</li>
<li>Email the above to jobs at torproject.org, specifying the
"Browser Hacker" position.</li>
</ul>
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About the company:<br>
The Tor Project is a US 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to research,
development, and education about online anonymity and privacy. The Tor
network's 3000 volunteer relays carry 16 Gbps for upwards of half a
million daily users, including ordinary citizens who want protection
from identity theft and prying corporations, corporations who want
to look at a competitor's website in private, people around the world
whose Internet connections are censored, and even governments and law
enforcement. Tor has a staff of 14 paid developers, researchers, and
advocates, plus many dozen volunteers who help out on a daily basis. Tor
is funded in part by government research and development grants, and
in part by individual and corporate donations.
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