Senior Staff Software Engineer - Networking

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What is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla?

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 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 junior and senior engineers so they can take on new ones, while collaborating with management on building team consensus and providing technical direction.

The Role

The Mozilla Corporation's Gecko networking team is looking for skilled developers to work on a first-class networking stack and improve web experiences for millions of Firefox users. The team is working on the core of the browser that moves the web. The fundamental network protocols and features like HTTP, QUIC, caching and DNS are our responsibility. We strive to provide a performant and secure browsing experience for our users. Furthermore we work on advanced web platform networking API’s like Fetch, WebSockets and WebTransport. We improve our existing implementations and together with the broader community we advance the web through the evolution of relevant standards. 

Is debugging networking protocols or multi-threaded applications  an exciting challenge for you? If you’re also enthusiastic about working collaboratively with a worldwide community, we'd love to hear from you!

Opportunities to collaborate with other browser teams, and working in the open is the norm. Firefox is a mature project always looking for new optimizations, and we are trying to write some of our new components in Rust. You’ll be responsible for writing code, tests, specifications, building prototypes, solving problems, and analyzing data. You'll get feedback from real users and synthesize it into bug reports, feature designs, and strategic direction to make the web platform even better over time.

In this role you will:

• Improve Firefox’s web browsing experience with a particular focus on the networking stack and network related API’s, e.g. Fetch, WebSockets, WebTransport, etc.
• Design and implement new web platform features in collaboration with the web community
• Debug and fix problems in our multi-threaded code base
• Debug platform-specific networking issues
• Improve Firefox’s stability, correctness and performance
• Analyze and reduce Firefox’s memory usage
• Work cooperatively with other Mozillians to identify and correct issues

Your professional profile:

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Proficient in C++
• Skilled professional in HTTP protocols and implementations, experience implementing networking standards
• Experience performing high level system design, project planning, roadmap strategy and resourcing
• Experience and comfortable working with distributed teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with conflict resolution and decision making
• Professional experience in Javascript
• Experience or interest in learning Rust
• Actively coaches and shares knowledge to fellow and cross over engineering teams
• Experience working on a cross-platform native application
• Creative problem-solver and skilled debugger
• Experience writing and debugging multi-threaded code
• Ability to learn a large and complex multi-language code base
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

We value a variety of voices. You don’t need to check every box on this list to apply.

About Mozilla 

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