2 months ago
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
Tech Stack
DjangoDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesNode.jsPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonRustSQLTerraformTypeScript
About Mozilla
Mozilla builds open-source internet software, best known for the Firefox web browser, plus privacy tools like a VPN, password manager, and identity services. Its products are largely free and monetized through search partnerships and paid subscriptions, serving consumers, developers, and enterprises building for the web. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.