Senior Software Engineer, Mozilla
$116-182k
Salary range varies depending on geographical location
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Open for applications
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$116-182k
Salary range varies depending on geographical location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in software development with a strong focus on backend technologies
- In-depth knowledge of Python, Django, and confidence leading back-end engineering projects
- Experience deploying and operating applications on cloud infrastructure like AWS or GCP, with a strong understanding of DevOps practices and SRE collaboration
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana, Sentry, and BigQuery, including data-driven optimization and troubleshooting
- Experience with JavaScript, Typescript, React, next.js, SCSS, and a willingness to contribute to full-stack development when needed
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and operations teams
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and driving technical excellence in code quality, testing, and process improvements
Desirable
- REST API servicing millions of clients
- Twilio
- AWS: SES, S3, SNS, SQS
- GCP: Kubernetes, Compute, SQL, BigQuery
- Email tech: DMARC, SPF, DKIM, FBL
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Developer at Mozilla, you will be an integral part of the Relay Engineering Team, responsible for building and maintaining key backend systems and supporting frontend implementations
- You’ll work on projects that focus on privacy and security, including features like email and phone number masking, which are central to our users’ online safety
- Lead backend development when required, in python with Django and REST framework
- Design, implement, and maintain code for email and phone number masking using AWS and Twilio APIs, focusing on security and privacy, in alignment with Relay’s core objectives
- Work closely with our SRE team to develop and operate production environments including monitoring and alerting with tools such as Grafana, Sentry, and BigQuery to track metrics, tracebacks, and data insights
- Periodically rotate into a Base Load Engineer (BLE) role: handling releases, dependency updates, and incoming work requests, including bug reports and queries from our customer support team
- Support frontend development in JavaScript, Typescript, React, and next.js
- Partner with cross-functional teams to align on project goals, ensure seamless frontend-backend integration, and contribute to API design and evaluations
- Participate in code reviews to maintain high standards of code quality and system reliability
- Participate in security and privacy reviews, ensuring that all data protection measures, including email alias management and phone number masking, meet compliance standards
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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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, 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 HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
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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