Senior Staff Software Engineer, Ads
at Mozilla Corporation Team: Strategy & Operations Locations: Remote UK, Remote France, Remote Canada, Remote Germany, Remote US
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Why Mozilla?
Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.
The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.
What is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla?
A Senior Staff Software Engineer is the next level from a Staff Software Engineer. At Mozilla this role can vary, but typically a senior staff engineer leads projects requiring implementation with multiple teams, providing technical leadership, building cross-team relationships, and helping the teams deliver on their objectives. They are a guide in their domain and provide observation and evaluation on our strategy and goals affecting numerous teams and turn our strategy into coordinated action for those teams. They mentor others by stewarding responsibilities to more junior engineers, so they can address new ones, while collaborating with leadership on establishing team consensus and providing direction. Typically, a Senior Staff is a technical lead for multiple teams.
About this team and role
We’re growing the Mozilla Ads product team, passionate about display advertising in Mozilla products that is privacy-respecting and values-aligned. You will be one of the lead engineers that will craft, build, and be responsible for the core systems, both front-end and back-end, that support advertising in clients (Firefox, MDN, Pocket, Fakespot, etc). You and your team will be the domain guides when it comes to advertising, providing direction and shepherding to various product teams across Mozilla.
What you’ll do…
1. Drive the completion of major initiatives on clear timelines that span across multiple teams and organizations in Mozilla.
2. Ensure that the software your team delivers is high quality, measurable, and maintainable.
3. Work with front-end teams across Mozilla to support, and extend, existing systems to apply innovative ways and technologies in reaching Mozilla’s advertising goals.
4. Collaborate with the office of the CTO on development of industry leading privacy preserving ad technology.
5. Write engineering proposals for the team’s biggest projects and provide feedback for major architectural decisions across the organization.
6. Collaborate with management on building consensus across the org and providing guidance
What you’ll bring…
7. 10+ years of overall software engineering experience
8. Confirmed ability to effectively lead and ship sophisticated software projects
9. Ability to influence roadmaps and execution in the teams you and your team partner with
10. Expertise in working on sophisticated full-stack systems at scale
11. Expertise in one of the following back-end technologies: Golang, Rust or Java
12. Expertise in one of the following front-end technologies: Javascript, React, or Node.js
13. Ability to take initiative in a loosely structured environment to navigate your team to success
14. Dedication to our values:
15. Welcoming differences
16. Being relationship-minded
17. Practicing responsible participation
18. Having grit
Bonus Points for…
19. Experience in data privacy
20. Experience in digital advertising or advertising platforms
What you’ll get:
21. Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
22. Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
23. Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
24. Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
25. Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
26. One-time home office stipend
27. Annual professional development budget
28. Quarterly well-being stipend
29. Considerable paid parental leave
30. Employee referral bonus program
31. Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)