Staff Fullstack Engineer, Mozilla
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$138-239k
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
Job no longer available
Designs, builds, and distributes internet software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$138-239k
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 backend systems at scale
- Experience 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 lead your team to success
- An interest and ability to work in a distributed team (which requires good asynchronous written communication skills as well as good verbal communication skills)
- Commitment to our values: Welcoming differences, being relationship-minded, practicing responsible participation and having grit
- Experience in data privacy
- Experience in digital advertising or advertising platforms
What the job involves
- A Staff Software Engineer is the next level from a Senior Software Engineer. At Mozilla this role can vary but typically a Staff Engineer is a domain expert who leads others within a single team to tackle multi-month projects
- They sequence deliverables and manage risks in their team's projects, provide feedback on our strategy and goals affecting the team, and turn our strategy into action for their team members
- Staff Software Engineers mentor others by stewarding some responsibilities to more junior and senior engineers so they can take on new ones
- They collaborate with management on building team consensus and providing direction. Staff Software Engineers identify gaps and opportunities for improvement to enable a culture of inclusion and allyship, at all levels of the organization
- Design and deliver long term projects that impact multiple teams across Mozilla and that support the Mozila Ads system
- Ensure that the software your team delivers is high quality, measurable, and maintainable
- Participate in development of industry leading privacy preserving ad technology
- Mentor others by stewarding some of your responsibilities to more junior engineers
- 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 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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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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