Engineering Manager, Mozilla
Web Developer APIs and Tools
+ Performance-based bonus plans
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Be an early applicant
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
+ Performance-based bonus plans
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in systems programming or deep familiarity with low-level software architecture is highly valued
- 2+ years of hands-on people management experience
- Experienced functional manager with proven skills leading a team of diverse engineers, with the ability to mentor team members that have different skill sets from your own
- Proven project management skills, enabling leadership of the team to deliver and maintain complex software projects
- Software engineering background, providing the experience needed to drive technical decisions and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority, while empowering tech leads as the primary designers and decision makers
- Proficiency with software development lifecycle practices for triage, prioritization, and execution
- Passion for resolving problems, managing risks, leading change and facilitating collaborative decision making
- Experience working on performance-critical, memory-sensitive system software, or systems programming would help you stand out
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
What the job involves
- We are hiring for two Engineering Manager positions:
- Engineering Manager for the DOM team, responsible for the Gecko implementation of web standards including IndexedDB, Web Workers, Service Workers, Push API and Notifications API that powers websites people use via Firefox
- Engineering Manager for SpiderMonkey Javascript team, responsible for Mozilla's Javascript engine and Javascript standards (TC39), which power the web experiences for Firefox users
- Both of these teams work primarily in systems programming (like C++, Rust or WebAssembly) and write tests largely with HTML and JavaScript.
- You'll manage a team of software engineers working on storage, background, and system-level Web APIs and standards, or the SpiderMonkey Javascript engine and related standards
- Mentor and guide a diverse team of engineers, inspiring collaboration, growing their careers, and empathizing with their needs
- Owner of the team roadmap, and working closely with platform peer managers, product management and technical leads, to manage risks, balance resources and clear blockers
- Assign work to team members according to individuals abilities, while in parallel collaborating with the team to deliver major initiatives on clear timelines
- Ensure that your team delivers well-planned, high quality, and maintainable software
- Collaborate openly with the open source community
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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