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 enhance the browser's ease of use and security by creating better administration tools. This role requires assessing and prioritizing work to align with the team's roadmap and collaborating with other engineers to improve the Firefox experience for millions of users. You will work with a geographically distributed team and contribute to the codebase across Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms. The position offers opportunities for professional growth and development within a mission-driven organization.

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)