Security Student Worker, Mozilla
Mozilla Firefox
€28,00 EUR per Hour
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Be an early applicant
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€28,00 EUR per Hour
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with programming in C/C++, or Rust and you’re familiar with the concept of memory safety and practices for secure software development
- You speak English fluently and enjoy conducting software engineering work in the open
- Previous experience with cryptography, compilers, operating system development or web security is a bonus!
- You are enrolled in a university in Germany and are willing to occasionally visit our Office in Berlin
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
What the job involves
- The Security Engineering Team provides core security and privacy guarantees which allows individuals to safely browse the web using Firefox
- Keeping that promise requires many layers of assurance which are encompassed within the Security Engineering Team
- For this role in particular we are looking for a skilled low level engineer who can support our efforts in Communication Security, which entails the entire TLS stack, Network Security Services (NSS) and Personal Security Manager (PSM)
- Our team maintains all crypto relevant code in Firefox and hence you will be working on the core of the Firefox browser which fundamentally enables all secure communication between the client and the browser
- As part of our internship program, you’ll have the opportunity to be mentored one-on-one by somebody brilliant, to impact the projects you’ll collaborate on, and to never be bored
- From the passionate people you’ll learn from, to the chances you’ll have to make the Web a better place, your time with Mozilla will be unlike any other
- Below is a small snapshot of the work we do to give you an idea about some of the big things you could do at Mozilla
- We strive to provide a secure browsing experience for all of our users. We not only maintain existing cryptographic primitives in NSS, the cryptographic library powering Firefox, but are also on the forefront of advancing the web through the evolution of relevant standards
- Improve Firefox’s web browsing experience by maintaining and advancing the entire TLS stack, Firefox’s Personal Security Manager (PSM), and NSS (Network Security Services), the cryptographic library powering Firefox
- Design and implement new web platform features in collaboration with senior leaders and the web community
- Debug and fix platform-specific security problems in our multi-threaded codebase and improve Firefox’s stability and correctness
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.
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, 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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