Responsibilities
- Lead backend development and maintain server-side logic.
- Own services end to end by deploying, operating, monitoring, and maintaining their production health.
- Maintain and improve production environments with CloudEng, including monitoring and alerting.
- Participate in on-call and off-hours support, triaging incidents, resolving production issues, investigating bug reports, and improving reliability.
- Rotate into support responsibilities involving releases, dependency updates, and incoming requests from customer support and stakeholders.
- Collaborate with frontend, platform, product, Cloud Engineering, UX, design, and support teams on project goals, APIs, and data contracts.
- Participate in code reviews, security reviews, privacy reviews, and compliance-related data protection work.
- Use AI-assisted development tools thoughtfully while maintaining engineering judgment and quality standards.
Requirements
- At least four years of software development experience with a strong backend focus.
- Strong professional experience with Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or Rust for building backend services.
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL, SQL query optimization, relational schema design, migrations, and a query builder such as Knex.
- Hands-on DevOps experience with Google Cloud Platform and Docker-based build and deployment pipelines.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Sentry and Grafana.
- Experience owning and operating services in production, including on-call or off-hours support.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers and driving improvements in code quality, testing, and engineering processes.
- Bonus experience with performance or load testing, Terraform, Kubernetes, open-source contributions, personal engineering projects, or Django.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus plans for eligible employees
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Retirement contributions with immediate vesting
- Quarterly company wellness days
- Country-specific holidays and a birthday day off
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Life, AD&D, disability, and EAP benefits, varying by country
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About Mozilla
A lot of companies say they’re “mission-driven.” Our unique corporate structure guarantees that every decision we make upholds our mission: to ensure the internet remains open and accessible. Beholden to neither shareholders nor investors, Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation. Along with our communities of 20,000+ contributors and collaborators, Mozilla Corporation’s staff designs, builds, and distributes software that allows people to enjoy the internet on their own terms. Our flagship product — the Firefox browser — has expanded into a family of products that protects users and alerts them of risks, safeguards passwords and provides a secure VPN (with more to come). By maintaining a safe, open internet we're helping humanity, while also helping the individual humans employed here to reach their personal and professional goals. With a relatively small team serving hundreds of millions of people, a culture of exploration, and a commitment to mentorship, opportunities abound to learn and grow at Mozilla.