Engineering Manager, Firefox Desktop

Mozilla

full-time

Posted on: 3/27/2026

Location Type: Remote

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About the role

Drive initiatives to deliver value to our users via Messaging and features across Firefox while ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, monitored, and maintainable.
Help the team navigate trade-offs and drive alignment in a fast-paced, evolving field; balancing quick delivery with thoughtful, long-term approaches across a portfolio of Messaging experiences in the browser.
Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines.
Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team.
Engage regularly 1-1 with your team to discuss both technical work and professional development; provide direct and honest feedback about their individual performances
Lead hiring efforts
Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle.
Create an inclusive environment which engages and challenges your team members.
Work collaboratively with many teams including Product, UX, QA, Operations, and Data Science to ensure roadmap success.

4+ years leading engineers in a software development environment and working across multiple distributed teams.
Software engineering background that empowers you to drive technical decisions within the team and engage with engineers at all levels of seniority to triage, prioritize and implement.
Solid understanding of web technologies (JavaScript, React, HTML, and CSS)
Proven track record successfully leading and shipping sophisticated user facing experiences on time in a loosely structured environment.
Strong communication and ability to develop positive relationships with others, regardless of their rank or role.
Passion to resolve problems, manage risk, lead change, and facilitate collaborative decision-making.
Experience effectively communicating with senior leadership and advocating for engineering priorities.
Desire to grow and learn as a manager, grow and develop others, and get results through others rather than personal technical proficiency.
Able to hire, mentor, empower, develop, and delegate to geographically distributed team members with different skills from your own.
Commitment to our values:
Welcoming differences
Being relationship-minded
Practicing responsible participation
Having grit

Benefits

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)

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaScriptReactHTMLCSSsoftware developmentengineering processesuser facing experiencestechnical decisionsrisk managementcollaborative decision-making

Soft Skills

communicationrelationship-buildingmentoringempowermentteam leadershipfeedbackproblem-solvingadaptabilityinclusive environmentprofessional development