Senior Data Engineer, Mozilla
$125-200k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Performance-based bonus
Internet software for people, not profit
Job no longer available
Internet software for people, not profit
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$125-200k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Performance-based bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure the internet remains open and accessible.
Role
Who you are
- At a minimum 3 years of professional experience in data engineering
- Proficiency with the programming languages used by our teams (SQL and Python)
- Demonstrated experience designing data models used to represent specific business activities to power analysis
- Strong software engineering fundamentals: modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms
- Ability to work collaboratively with a distributed team, leveraging strong communication skills to ensure alignment and effective teamwork across different time zones
- Our team requires skills in a variety of domains. You should have proficiency in one or more of the areas listed below, and be interested in learning about the others:
- You have used data to answer specific questions and guide company decisions
- You are opinionated about data models and how they should be implemented; you partner with others to map out a business process, profile available data, design and build flexible data models for analysis
- You have experience recommending / implementing new data collection to help improve the quality of data models
- You have experience with data infrastructure: databases, message queues, batch and stream processing
- You have experience building modular and reusable ETL/ELT pipelines in distributed databases
- You have experience with highly scalable distributed systems hosted on cloud providers (e.g. Google Cloud Platform)
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer at Mozilla, your primary area of focus will be on our Analytics Engineering team
- This team focuses on modeling our data so that the rest of Mozilla has access to it, in the appropriate format, when they need it, to help them make data informed decisions
- This team is also tasked with helping to maintain and make improvements to our data platform
- Some recent improvements include introducing a data catalog, building in data quality checks among others
- Work with data scientists to design data modes, answer questions and guide product decisions
- Work with other data engineers to design and maintain scalable data models and ETL pipelines
- Help improve the infrastructure for ingesting, storing and transforming data at a scale of tens of terabytes per day
- Help design and build systems to monitor and analyze data from Mozilla’s products
- Establish best practices for governing data containing sensitive information, ensuring compliance and security
Our take
Mozilla develops a range of free and open-source software, with its most familiar product being Firefox. Operated with a mission-driven, not0for-profit ethos, Mozilla champions online privacy, open standards and user-choice.
Beyond Firefox, Mozilla has focused on privacy forward offerings such as Mozilla VPN, which allows users to browse securely without being tracked. The company has also streamlined its product portfolio to concentrate on initiatives that align closely with its core mission, ensuring resources are dedicated to improving user experiences while fostering safer, more open digital environments.
Alongside this, its impact extends into the developer and tech community, having played a pivotal role in the creation of Rust, a systems programming language celebrated for its speed and efficiency. With a loyal user base, ongoing innovation, and a clear commitment to privacy and open-source principles, Mozilla remains an influential player in the technology landscape.
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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 and wellness: Mozilla covers medical, dental and vision plan premiums at 100% for U.S. and Canadian employees. Our offerings give you the options you need to manage your health — and your family’s — the way you want.
- Mental health: Mental health is as important as our physical health. That’s why Mozilla’s health benefits include therapy and coaching sessions to make sure our people have access to the care they need.
- Time away: With all of life’s demands, time away from work to disconnect and recharge is essential. In addition to country-specific holidays (12 in the U.S. and Canada), vacation and sick time start accruing right away (specifics vary by country). Everyone also takes a pause together on quarterly all-company wellness days, plus you get to celebrate the most personal holiday of all: your birthday.
- Parental leave: While Mozilla’s parental leave policies vary globally, our U.S. and Canadian-based employees can look forward to 26 weeks of paid leave for childbearing parents and 12 weeks of paid leave for non-childbearing parents.
- Financial: Mozilla is a private company, so our compensation isn’t tied to stock options or equity plans. Instead, we offer generous, performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees to underscore that we share in our success as one team. As for retirement savings for US and Canadian employees, Mozilla contributes a percentage of your eligible base salary each year to the 401(k) Plan/RRSP (regardless of whether you contribute or not), with 100% vesting.
- Learning and development: We’re big believers in learning by doing, and we also want to invest in your education and development beyond your role. Every employee is eligible for an annual professional development budget. Mozillians can put it toward technical or management training, certifications, conferences and more.
- Help when you need it: Life is full of surprises; that’s why it’s important to be prepared. Mozilla provides Life/AD&D and Short and Long Term Disability insurance (offerings may vary by locale) to ensure that you and your family will have a safety net in place should you ever need it.
- Plus a bit more: A few other benefits include a quarterly wellbeing stipend (to use on those things just for you), an employee referral bonus, internet reimbursement if you’re remote, and a budget for office essentials to make working remotely ergonomically comfortable.
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Laura Chambers
(CEO)Alongside serving as the CEO at Mozilla, Laura is an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Previously, she was the CEO and PResident at Willow Innovation, Director at Patelco Credit Union, and General Manager of Core Hosts & Community at Airbnb.
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