Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Mozilla's growing Ads product team and participate in the development of industry-leading, privacy-preserving ad technology. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and own core backend systems supporting advertising in various Mozilla products like Firefox and Pocket. Leverage your product strategy understanding to deliver on key projects, mentor junior engineers, and serve as a go-to resource for Mozilla's ad stack. You will work in a distributed team, requiring strong communication skills. This role requires 4+ years of software engineering experience and expertise in backend systems at scale, along with proficiency in Golang, Rust, or Java. Mozilla offers a comprehensive benefits package including generous bonuses, rich medical coverage, retirement contributions, wellness days, and paid parental leave.

Requirements

• 4+ years of overall software engineering experience
• Proven ability to successfully lead and ship large software projects with speed and quality
• Experience in working on complex backend systems at scale
• Experience in one of the following technologies: Golang, Rust, or Java
• An interest and ability to work in a distributed team (which requires good asynchronous written communication skills as well as good verbal communication skills)
• Commitment to our values: Welcoming differences
• Being relationship-minded
• Practicing responsible participation
• Having grit

Responsibilities

• Participate in development of industry leading privacy preserving ad technology
• Leverage your understanding of product strategy to break down and deliver on key projects on our roadmap
• Mentor others by stewarding some of your responsibilities to more junior engineers
• Be a go-to resource for Mozilla’s ad stack to peers in partner teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in data privacy
• Experience in digital advertising or advertising platforms

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)