Mozilla

Senior Software Engineer

Mozilla

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇫🇷 France

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

JavaScriptLinuxMacOSOpen SourceRust

About the role

  • Responsible for all things related to OS integration - such as updates, installs, and integrating Firefox with the different operating systems - and helping us grow our user base
  • Develop, innovate, and ship the next experience of Firefox through improved integration with the operating system
  • Improve the ease of use and security of Firefox in large deployments by developing better administration and monitoring tools
  • Assess what work supports the team and product roadmap and make insightful recommendations in regards to priorities
  • Work with expert software engineers to further develop your understanding of the Windows, macOS and Linux platforms
  • Optimize the quality of Firefox by hunting down and fixing software defects, improving the experience of hundreds of millions of users
  • Work with a geographically-distributed development team

Requirements

  • Experience with systems programming on a major desktop platform (Windows, macOS or Linux)
  • A solid understanding of C/C++ and some knowledge of Rust
  • A solid understanding of JavaScript and typical interactions with the backend (services, REST, ... )
  • You are an excellent communicator and have participated effectively on a distributed team
  • You’re pragmatic about how to move things forward in specific timeframes including trade-offs and safeguards when implementing new functionality
  • Experience working collaboratively with product managers, project managers, and/or other non-engineering teams
  • Bonus: Professional programming experience in Rust
  • Bonus: You have developed cross-platform desktop applications, particularly when this involves low level systems programming such as Cocoa APIs on macOS or GTK on Linux
  • Bonus: You have previously successfully contributed to an open source project
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
CC++RustJavaScriptsystems programmingcross-platform developmentCocoa APIsGTKRESTsoftware defect fixing
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationpragmatisminsightful recommendationsteam participationtime managementtrade-off analysissafeguard implementation