Senior Staff Software Engineer, Mozilla
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€103-151k
+ Performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Job no longer available
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
€103-151k
+ Performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make sure that the internet remains accessible, open, and transparent to everyone.
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
- Bonus Points for…
- 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 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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