Software Engineer, Mozilla
Data Collection Tools
$138-217k
Salary dependent on location + Performance-based bonus
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Be an early applicant
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$138-217k
Salary dependent on location + Performance-based bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise with at least one of the following programming languages TypeScript, Python, Rust, C++, as well as basic knowledge of SQL and the willingness to learn one or more of the other languages used by our team
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a geographically distributed team across different timezones
- Ability to effectively prioritize and direct work to maximize impact in meeting business needs
- Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively, both through writing and verbally, in order to create and further discussion around documentation, proposals, decision briefs and other communication channels
- Our team requires skills in a variety of domains. Strong candidates will have at least 3 of the following skills and attributes:
- Use of data to answer specific questions and inform team decisions
- Experience navigating and working within large code-bases
- Experience with the implementation of features that require changes to multiple systems (e.g. clients, ETLs)
- Ability to support and mentor other engineers in their growth
- Ability and willingness to learn other programming languages as needed
- Experience with front-end development
- Experience with data collection within products in production
- Developing open source software in the open
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer at in Mozilla's Data Engineering team, you’ll be taking a lead role in a cross-functional team to ensure the quality of data and insights, from product instrumentation through to the applications we use to perform analysis. Check out the Data@Mozilla blog for more details on some of our work
- You will be sharing responsibility for setting the vision and strategy for our multi-language, cross-platform, browser-scale data collection tools
- You will have significant impact on the effectiveness of the organization by overseeing major improvements to our data collection and analysis infrastructure through:
- Meeting with leaders throughout the organization to understand their data needs
- Translating those needs into practical requirements
- Designing and proposing systems to satisfy those requirements
- Leading and participating in the implementation of those systems
- You will design, build and apply systems and tools to empower product teams to effectively and autonomously collect data in their products
- You will work with data scientists to answer questions and guide product decision
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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