Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Mozilla's Nimbus team as a backend engineer to design and build scalable systems for Firefox and other web applications. You will help personalize content while respecting user privacy, mentor junior engineers, and ensure service operation. This role requires at least 4 years of experience in software engineering with Python/Rust and experience with API design and development for desktop and mobile platforms. You'll work with a distributed team and demonstrate excellent communication skills. Mozilla offers generous benefits including performance-based bonuses, comprehensive health coverage, retirement contributions, wellness days, paid parental leave, and a professional development budget.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of professional experience in software engineering, building and operating scalable services and applications that support millions of users
• At least 4 years of professional experience working in Python and/or Rust, with experience in (or desire to learn) Kotlin and Swift
• You have experience with API design and development and have supported integrations with your services into desktop and 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

Responsibilities

• 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

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)