Mozilla

Senior Software Engineer, Add-Ons

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Remote, FinlandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Deliver features and architectural improvements across automated moderation pipelines, Reviewer tools, DevHub, and Add-ons application systems.
  • Build and improve internal developer platforms, deployment workflows, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and production operations.
  • Establish engineering standards for code review, production readiness, testing, recoverability, documentation, incident response, and on-call practices.
  • Design and maintain reliable systems using metrics, logging, tracing, service-level objectives, alerting, and actionable data-backed insights.
  • Debug complex production issues across frontend, backend, asynchronous jobs, data stores, and infrastructure.
  • Write technical documentation including 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, mentor colleagues, contribute to code reviews, and support continuous process improvement.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining production applications with Python and Django.
  • Experience operating and improving production software systems where reliability and safe delivery are important.
  • Strong experience with CI/CD systems, declarative pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, 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 defining or improving engineering practices such as code review standards, operational readiness, runbooks, incident response, on-call expectations, and definitions of done.
  • Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases and trace application behavior across frontend, backend, asynchronous jobs, data stores, and infrastructure.
  • Experience debugging complex production issues and converting findings into lasting system improvements.
  • Strong technical writing, collaboration, communication, and knowledge-sharing skills.
  • Preferred 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, vision, retirement, life, disability, EAP, and other benefits varying by country.
  • 100% immediately vested retirement contributions.
  • Quarterly company wellness days, country-specific holidays, and a birthday day off.
  • One-time home office stipend and quarterly well-being stipend.
  • Annual professional development budget.
  • Paid parental leave and employee referral bonus program.
  • Remote role, with the listed hiring range applying to Remote Finland.

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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