Software Engineering Manager, Mozilla
+ Performance-based bonus plans
Internet software for people, not profit
Job no longer available
Internet software for people, not profit
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ Performance-based bonus plans
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure the internet remains open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of people management experience
- A track record of leading teams that successfully deliver production software
- Strong judgment around prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
- Familiarity with modern software development practices, including planning, issue triage, and delivery workflows
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and partner teams to deliver outcomes
- Experience supporting engineers with varied skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experience
- Comfort working in a distributed, asynchronous environment
- Experience in digital advertising or advertising platforms, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn privacy-sensitive domains
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
What the job involves
- The Ads Engineering organization at Mozilla builds privacy-respecting advertising systems that support Mozilla’s products and business while aligning with our mission and values
- Our teams focus on building reliable, scalable backend systems that enable advertising functionality across all Mozilla properties
- As an Engineering Manager on Ads Engineering, you will lead a team of software engineers working on backend services and platforms that support advertising capabilities
- You’ll be responsible for building a healthy, effective team; partnering with product and cross-functional stakeholders; and ensuring your team delivers high-quality software in support of Ads Engineering goals
- This role balances people leadership, execution, and collaboration, with a strong emphasis on mentoring engineers, delivering results, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture
- Mentor, support, and develop a team of software engineers, helping them grow in impact and craft
- Lead your team through the delivery of projects and initiatives where problem definition may evolve as requirements, constraints, and learnings become clearer
- Partner with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to navigate ambiguity, particularly where user data, privacy expectations, or policy considerations shape technical and product decisions
- Ensure the software your team builds is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with Mozilla’s quality, security, and privacy standards
- Create an environment where engineers can do their best work, including healthy team processes, clear communication, and support through uncertainty
- Participate in hiring and onboarding to grow and strengthen the team over time
Our take
Mozilla develops a range of free and open-source software, with its most familiar product being Firefox. Operated with a mission-driven, not0for-profit ethos, Mozilla champions online privacy, open standards and user-choice.
Beyond Firefox, Mozilla has focused on privacy forward offerings such as Mozilla VPN, which allows users to browse securely without being tracked. The company has also streamlined its product portfolio to concentrate on initiatives that align closely with its core mission, ensuring resources are dedicated to improving user experiences while fostering safer, more open digital environments.
Alongside this, its impact extends into the developer and tech community, having played a pivotal role in the creation of Rust, a systems programming language celebrated for its speed and efficiency. With a loyal user base, ongoing innovation, and a clear commitment to privacy and open-source principles, Mozilla remains an influential player in the technology landscape.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 and wellness: Mozilla covers medical, dental and vision plan premiums at 100% for U.S. and Canadian employees. Our offerings give you the options you need to manage your health — and your family’s — the way you want.
- Mental health: Mental health is as important as our physical health. That’s why Mozilla’s health benefits include therapy and coaching sessions to make sure our people have access to the care they need.
- Time away: With all of life’s demands, time away from work to disconnect and recharge is essential. In addition to country-specific holidays (12 in the U.S. and Canada), vacation and sick time start accruing right away (specifics vary by country). Everyone also takes a pause together on quarterly all-company wellness days, plus you get to celebrate the most personal holiday of all: your birthday.
- Parental leave: While Mozilla’s parental leave policies vary globally, our U.S. and Canadian-based employees can look forward to 26 weeks of paid leave for childbearing parents and 12 weeks of paid leave for non-childbearing parents.
- Financial: Mozilla is a private company, so our compensation isn’t tied to stock options or equity plans. Instead, we offer generous, performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees to underscore that we share in our success as one team. As for retirement savings for US and Canadian employees, Mozilla contributes a percentage of your eligible base salary each year to the 401(k) Plan/RRSP (regardless of whether you contribute or not), with 100% vesting.
- Learning and development: We’re big believers in learning by doing, and we also want to invest in your education and development beyond your role. Every employee is eligible for an annual professional development budget. Mozillians can put it toward technical or management training, certifications, conferences and more.
- Help when you need it: Life is full of surprises; that’s why it’s important to be prepared. Mozilla provides Life/AD&D and Short and Long Term Disability insurance (offerings may vary by locale) to ensure that you and your family will have a safety net in place should you ever need it.
- Plus a bit more: A few other benefits include a quarterly wellbeing stipend (to use on those things just for you), an employee referral bonus, internet reimbursement if you’re remote, and a budget for office essentials to make working remotely ergonomically comfortable.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Laura Chambers
(CEO)Alongside serving as the CEO at Mozilla, Laura is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Previously, she was the CEO and PResident at Willow Innovation, Director at Patelco Credit Union, and General Manager of Core Hosts & Community at Airbnb.
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