Software Engineer

Summary

Join the global DOM: Core team of engineers passionate about the Web and responsible for page navigation, document loading, event handling, user interaction, and text editing in Gecko, the engine behind Firefox. You will implement standardized APIs like DOM, HTML, Events, Editor, and Clipboard, pushing the boundaries of what the Web is capable of. Responsibilities include writing code and tests, building prototypes, solving problems, and continuous learning and growth. The team works in the open and collaborates with a geographically distributed team. Mozilla offers generous performance-based bonuses, rich medical, dental, and vision coverage, generous retirement contributions, quarterly wellness days, country-specific holidays, a birthday day off, a one-time home office stipend, an annual professional development budget, a quarterly well-being stipend, considerable paid parental leave, and an employee referral bonus program. Other benefits include life/AD&D, disability, and EAP (varies by country).

Requirements

• Proficiency in and experience developing software in C++
• Ability to learn a large and complex code base quickly
• Comfortable contacting people and driving discussions
• Motivated to learn new tools and techniques for improving existing software
• Familiarity with one or more of the following, or ability to pick them up in a timely manner
• Multi-process architecture
• Debugging memory usage or performance profiling
• The modern Web technologies (JavaScript, HTML, and/or CSS)

Responsibilities

• Improve the DOM, HTML, editing, user interaction capabilities of our Web engine, with a focus on performance, Web compatibility, and standards correctness
• Read and implement API specifications, as well as contributing to the standards process by raising issues or participating in discussions
• Develop and debug in a multi-language, multi-threaded and multi-process code base
• Work primarily in C++ and write tests largely with HTML and JavaScript
• Collaborate with a geographically distributed development team
• Working in the open is the norm

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)