Staff Software Engineer, Mozilla
Credential Management
+ Performance-based bonus plans
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Job no longer available
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
+ 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
- 7+ years of overall software engineering experience
- Proven ability to successfully lead and ship complex software projects
- Experience in working on complex full stack systems at scale
- Proven experience in JavaScript. C++ and/or Rust is a bonus
- Proven knowledge of core web technologies (HTML, DOM, Origins)
- Working experience with SQL
- Ability to take initiative in a loosely structured environment to lead your team to success
- An interest and ability to work in a distributed and cross-functional team (which requires good asynchronous written communication skills as well as good verbal communication skills)
- Creative problem-solving. You like to take initiative to push projects forward but know when to involve others
Desirable
- Experience in data privacy and security
- Experience leading scrums and sprint ceremonies
- Experience working in open source
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer and technical team lead on the Credential Management team, you will lead our engineering team that is responsible for providing an easy, intuitive, reliable, and seamless capture, management and auto-fill experience of passwords, payment methods and addresses within our Firefox browser
- You will collaborate with cross-functional partners across Product, UX, Design, Engineering, QA, Localization, Ops, and Support teams to build and maintain core Credential Management features within Firefox
- You will coordinate and collaborate with partners across Desktop, Android, iOS and Services teams to deliver a consistent cross-platform Credential Management experience across all devices
- Design and deliver long term projects that impact multiple cross-functional and cross-platform teams across Mozilla and that support the Credential Management space
- Technical ownership over major components of Firefox, taking responsibility for their maintenance and architectural improvement over time
- Ensure that the software your team delivers is high quality, measurable, and maintainable
- Participate in defining and shaping auto-fill web standards
- Responsible for the triaging and resolution of product issues that impact our users – large and small
- Mentor others by stewarding some of your responsibilities to more junior engineers
- Work with cross-functional teams across Mozilla to support, and extend, existing systems to apply innovative ways and technologies in reaching strategic Firefox objectives and goals
- Collaborate with management to provide feedback on our strategy and turn that strategy into concrete actions for the team
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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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 values
- We welcome differences
- We are relationship-minded
- We practice responsible participation
- We have grit
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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