Senior Staff Software Engineer, Mozilla
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Internet software for people, not profit
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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
- 10+ years of overall software engineering experience
- Confirmed ability to effectively lead and ship sophisticated software projects
- Ability to influence roadmaps and execution in the teams you and your team partner with
- Expertise in working on sophisticated full-stack systems at scale
- Expertise in one of the following back-end technologies: Golang, Rust or Java
- Expertise in one of the following front-end technologies: Javascript, React, or Node.js
- Ability to take initiative in a loosely structured environment to navigate your team to success
- Dedication 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 Staff Software Engineer is the next level from a Staff Software Engineer. At Mozilla this role can vary, but typically a senior staff engineer leads projects requiring implementation with multiple teams, providing technical leadership, building cross-team relationships, and helping the teams deliver on their objectives
- They are a guide in their domain and provide observation and evaluation on our strategy and goals affecting numerous teams and turn our strategy into coordinated action for those teams
- They mentor others by stewarding responsibilities to more junior engineers, so they can address new ones, while collaborating with leadership on establishing team consensus and providing direction. Typically, a Senior Staff is a technical lead for multiple teams
- We’re growing the Mozilla Ads product team, passionate about display advertising in Mozilla products that is privacy-respecting and values-aligned. You will be one of the lead engineers that will craft, build, and be responsible for the core systems, both front-end and back-end, that support advertising in clients (Firefox, MDN, Pocket, Fakespot, etc)
- You and your team will be the domain guides when it comes to advertising, providing direction and shepherding to various product teams across Mozilla
- Drive the completion of major initiatives on clear timelines that span across multiple teams and organizations in Mozilla
- Ensure that the software your team delivers is high quality, measurable, and maintainable
- Work with front-end teams across Mozilla to support, and extend, existing systems to apply innovative ways and technologies in reaching Mozilla’s advertising goals
- Collaborate with the office of the CTO on development of industry leading privacy preserving ad technology
- Write engineering proposals for the team’s biggest projects and provide feedback for major architectural decisions across the organization
- Collaborate with management on building consensus across the org and providing guidance
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.
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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 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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