Senior Backend Engineer, Mozilla
+ Performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Open for applications
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of overall software engineering experience
- Proven ability to successfully lead and ship large software projects with speed and quality
- Experience in working on complex backend systems at scale
- Experience in one of the following technologies: Golang, Rust, or Java
- An interest and ability to work in a distributed team (which requires good asynchronous written communication skills as well as good verbal communication skills)
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
Desirable
- Experience in data privacy
- Experience in digital advertising or advertising platforms
What the job involves
- A Senior Software Engineer is the next level from a Software Engineer
- At Mozilla, this role can vary, but is typically someone who is largely self directed after work is assigned and is advanced in their domain
- They help team members get information they need to be successful while also being the go-to person for peer reviews in their domain
- They have a solid understanding of the product strategy and can recommend solutions to critical issues when needed, assist junior engineers in risk management and escalation, and advocate for and implement changes that affect their team
- A Senior Software Engineer actively seeks opinions and ideas from their team members, including those with varied experiences and perspectives to improve more collective results
- We’re growing the Mozilla Ads product team, focused on display advertising in Mozilla products that is privacy-respecting and values-aligned
- You will be responsible for designing, building, and owning the core backend systems that support advertising in clients (Firefox, MDN, Pocket, etc)
- You and your team will be the subject matter experts when it comes to advertising, providing guidance and shepherding to various product teams across Mozilla
- Participate in development of industry leading privacy preserving ad technology
- Leverage your understanding of product strategy to break down and deliver on key projects on our roadmap
- Mentor others by stewarding some of your responsibilities to more junior engineers
- Be a go-to resource for Mozilla’s ad stack to peers in partner teams
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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