Senior Software Engineer, Services

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Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company behind pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best articles online. More than 225 million people around the world use its products each month.

Along with 60,000+ volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozilla Corporation’s staff are driven by our mission to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. We design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.

About this team and role:

At Mozilla, one of our four commitments is to build “...an internet that includes all the people of the earth - where a person’s demographic characteristics do not determine their online access, opportunities, or quality of experience.” Being inclusive and transparent for the betterment of humankind is at the core of our values. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. We take care of you by providing industry leading benefits.

Our Services Engineering team strategy is to fuel product growth and diversification by investing in flexible, easy-to-use, and reliable services. Our approach is privacy first as we help people get to the right information in the right context at the right time with less effort. We'd like you to join us in building services to help surface the content our customers want.

Our team is geographically-distributed, working in the open is the norm, and we value a culture of learning. We know that different experiences make engineering teams stronger. Even if you don't meet all the criteria below, we'd love to hear from you, learn about your journey, and see if your growth path aligns with ours!

What you'll do:

• Design and build robust, scalable systems that power experiences in Mozilla products such as Firefox and other web applications
• Help reimagine how we surface and personalize content while respecting our customer's privacy
• Participate in mentoring and knowledge sharing through documentation, code review, and pair programming
• Be accountable for the operation of your services with the potential for on-call rotations
• Help improve the services engineering culture at Mozilla through collaborative projects across the organization

What you'll bring:

• At least 4 years of professional experience in software engineering building and operating scaleable services and applications that support millions of users
• You are comfortable moving between languages such as Python, JavaScript, Rust, Kotlin, Swift and you are willing to learn as needed
• You have experience with API design and development and have supported integrations with your services into desktop and/or mobile platforms
• You have worked with a distributed team and you can demonstrate good asynchronous written and verbal communication skills
• You know how to approach an existing codebase and improve its architecture through small, planned interventions

What you’ll get:

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)

About Mozilla 

When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone onli