Senior Software Engineer, Mozilla
Services
$116-199k
+Performance-based bonus. Salary varies depending on location of applicant
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Open for applications
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$116-199k
+Performance-based bonus. Salary varies depending on location of applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- At least 4 years of professional experience in software engineering building and operating scalable services and applications that support millions of users
- You are comfortable moving between languages such as Python, JavaScript, Rust and you are willing to learn as needed. Kotlin and Swift are nice to haves
- You have experience with API design and development and have supported integrations with your services into desktop and/or mobile platforms
- You have worked with a distributed team and you can demonstrate good asynchronous written and verbal communication skills
- You know how to approach an existing codebase and improve its architecture through small, planned interventions
What the job involves
- Our Services Engineering team strategy is to fuel product growth and diversification by investing in flexible, easy-to-use, and reliable services. Our approach is privacy first as we help people get to the right information in the right context at the right time with less effort
- We'd like you to join us in building services to help surface the content our customers want
- Design and build robust, scalable systems that power experiences and support feature delivery in Mozilla products such as Firefox and other web applications
- Help reimagine how we surface and personalize content while respecting our customer's privacy
- Participate in mentoring and knowledge sharing through documentation, code review, and pair programming
- Be accountable for the operation of your services with the potential for on-call rotations
- Help improve the services engineering culture at Mozilla through collaborative projects across the organization
Our take
Mozilla creates and manages a range of free-to-use software products. Their most well-known product is Firefox, the fourth most popular internet browser in the world. Mozilla is a not-for-profit with a focus on promoting online privacy. The company has a published manifesto outlining its commitment to keeping a balance between commercial profit and public benefit.
The companies other products include Bugzilla, a bug management platform, and Pocket, an award-winning digital content filing service. In direct odds with Google, Mozilla has recently launched a new product Mozilla VPN. The VPN or virtual private network enables users to browse the internet without being tracked. Companies such as Google rely on tracking user behavior online to target them with advertising.
Mozilla was also instrumental in creating the programming language Rust, which is admired for its brevity. Rust uses roughly half the amount of code as C++ to produce the same results.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
12% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2018
$1.2m
GRANT
Jan 2005
$0.3m
ANGEL
Total funding: $3.5m
Company benefits
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance + Accidental Death & Dismemberment
- Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Retirement Plan contributions
- 20 Paid Time Off days per year (prorated) + your birthday
- Company Holidays + Shutdown
- Wellness budget
- Reimbursement for professional development (up to $3,000/year)
- Industry-leading paid parental leave (up to 26 weeks of fully paid leave for childbearing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-childbearing parents)
- Flexible work environment (nearly half of Mozillians work remotely)
- A work setup including the latest hardware and software of your choice
Company values
- We welcome differences
- We are relationship-minded
- We practice responsible participation
- We have grit
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Mitchell Baker
(CEO & Chairwoman)Mitchell worked as a lawyer and at Netscape Communications before co-founding Mozilla in 2003. They have served as Chairwoman of Mozilla Foundation since then, and CEO as of April 2020.
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