Senior Staff Software Engineer, Mozilla

• 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

• 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