Mozilla

Senior Software Engineer, Add-Ons

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6 hours ago
Remote, GermanySenior

Responsibilities

  • Deliver features and architectural improvements across automated moderation pipelines, Reviewer tools, DevHub, and AMO application systems.
  • Build and maintain Python/Django, MySQL, React/TypeScript, and asynchronous processing systems.
  • Create internal developer platforms and paved paths that help engineering teams safely develop, deploy, observe, and operate software.
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines using declarative, pipeline-as-code approaches and support staged or progressive delivery.
  • Develop observability systems involving metrics, logging, tracing, service-level objectives, and actionable alerting.
  • Contribute to deployments, monitoring, incident response, on-call practices, production readiness, testing, recoverability, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Document technical decisions and operations through design notes, Architecture Decision Records, runbooks, and incident reports.
  • Collaborate with engineers, reviewers, developer support, product managers, designers, QA, leadership, and community contributors.
  • Provide peer feedback, share knowledge, mentor colleagues, and contribute to engineering standards and process improvements.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining production applications with Python/Django.
  • Experience operating and improving production software systems where reliability and safe delivery matter.
  • Strong experience with CI/CD systems and declarative pipelines and infrastructure.
  • Experience designing or improving automated testing and deployment workflows, including integration testing and staged or progressive delivery.
  • Strong understanding of observability, including metrics, logging, tracing, service-level objectives, and actionable alerting.
  • Experience building or maintaining internal tools or platforms used by engineering teams.
  • Experience improving code review standards, operational readiness, runbooks, incident response, on-call expectations, or definitions of done.
  • Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases and trace behavior across frontend, backend, asynchronous jobs, data stores, and infrastructure.
  • Experience debugging complex production issues and implementing lasting system improvements.
  • Strong technical writing, collaboration, communication, iterative delivery, and peer mentoring skills.
  • Bonus: experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, disaster recovery testing, production readiness reviews, trust and safety, automated moderation, abuse prevention, or open source contributions.

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 and annual professional development budget.
  • Quarterly well-being stipend and paid parental leave.
  • Employee referral bonus program and additional benefits such as life/AD&D, disability, and EAP coverage, varying by country.
  • Remote Germany hiring location is indicated.

Tech Stack

DjangoGoogle CloudKubernetesMySQLPythonReactTypeScript

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Mozilla

About Mozilla

1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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