Staff Software Engineer

Summary

Join Mozilla VPN's fully remote global engineering team as an experienced software engineer. Contribute to the development and improvement of Mozilla VPN products, including browser extensions, integrations, and the cross-platform client. Implement new features, enhance performance and reliability, and tackle complex technical challenges. Collaborate with cross-functional colleagues, maintain high-quality code, enforce security best practices, and mentor other engineers. This role requires expertise in C/C++, networking protocols, and cross-platform application development. The ideal candidate will have experience with debugging network issues and a strong communication style.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• Expert level proficiency in C/C++
• Expertise in networking protocols and privacy and security best practices
• Extensive knowledge of core OS concepts of Windows or Mac
• Experience developing cross-platform applications (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
• Experience debugging network related problems with Wireshark, tcpdump, or similar tools
• Excellent communication skills and experience mentoring engineers

Responsibilities

• Drive the architecture, development, and optimization of the Mozilla VPN client across platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android)
• Work closely with cross functional colleagues, providing technical insight to drive feature development
• Maintain high-quality code, enforce security best practices, and mentor engineers by providing comprehensive and insightful code reviews
• Triage, debug and resolve software defects

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing cross platform applications with Qt
• Proficiency in any of the following: Rust, Go, Python, Javascript, TypeScript, Git
• Open-source contributions to networking or VPN-related projects
• Experience implementing or improving application observability

Benefits

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all regular 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)