Senior Staff Software Engineer, Mozilla

• 10+ years experience as a Software Engineer
• You have experience with low-level systems programming on at least one major platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, any mobile platform)
• You possess a solid understanding of C/C++
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and have participated effectively on a distributed team
• Ability to influence roadmaps and execution in the teams you and your team partner with
• You’re pragmatic about how to move things forward in specific timeframes including trade-offs and safeguards when implementing new functionality
• You already have development experience on Windows and/or macOS, particularly with low-level Win32/Cocoa API coding
• Experience working collaboratively with product managers, project managers, and/or other non-engineering teams
• Commitment to our values:
• Welcoming differences
• Being relationship-minded
• Practicing responsible participation
• Having grit

Desirable

• The Desktop integrations team focuses on updates, installs, supervising and integrating Firefox with different operating systems
• The team uses desktop Operating System and alternative surface APIs to improve Firefox's integration and usage
• In this role, you will be developing and implementing strategies that use these APIs to boost Firefox's compatibility across various operating systems, driving the browser's usage and contributing to the growth and stability of its user base
• 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 efforts across multiple teams, providing technical leadership, building cross-team relationships, and helping the teams deliver on their objectives
• The senior staff engineer is an expert in their domain
• They provide feedback on our strategy and goals affecting multiple teams and turn our strategy into coordinated action for those teams
• They mentor others by stewarding responsibilities to more junior engineers so they can take on new ones, while collaborating with management on building team consensus and providing direction
• Typically, a Senior Staff is a technical lead for multiple teams
• Design, develop, and ship the next experience of Firefox features through installs, updates, and OS integrations
• Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to influence strategic technical decisions for Firefox desktop
• Analyze data and metrics to invent new patterns to increase the user engagement during Firefox installation, update, and integration with the host OS
• Investigate low-level operating systems programming issues and contribute to design and implement solutions with other teams
• Assess what work supports the team and product roadmap and make insightful recommendations in regards to priorities
• Support management, peers, and others on team consensus and direction
• Analyze data and metrics to innovate on behalf of our users
• Improve the quality of Firefox on Windows and/or macOS by hunting down and fixing software defects, improving the experience of hundreds of millions of users
• Mentor others by stewarding some of your responsibilities to more junior engineers