Staff Software Engineer, Desktop Integration

Summary

Join the Firefox team at Mozilla and contribute to the development and improvement of the Firefox browser. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will develop, innovate, and ship new Firefox features, focusing on installs, updates, and OS integrations. You will also improve the ease of use and security of Firefox in large deployments by developing better administration tools. The role involves assessing work that supports the team and product roadmap, making insightful recommendations on priorities, and collaborating with expert software engineers to enhance your understanding of Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. You will optimize Firefox quality by identifying and fixing software defects, ultimately improving the experience for hundreds of millions of users. This position requires collaboration with a geographically-distributed development team.

Requirements

• Experience with systems programming on a major desktop platform (Windows, macOS or Linux)
• Development experience on Windows and/or macOS, particularly with low-level Win32/Cocoa API coding
• A solid understanding of C/C++ and some knowledge of Rust
• 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

Responsibilities

• Develop, innovate, and ship the next experience of Firefox features through installs, updates, and improved OS integrations
• Improve the ease of use and security of Firefox in large deployments by developing better administration 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional programming experience in Rust
• You have developed cross-platform desktop applications, particularly when this involves low level systems programming
• 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)