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Senior Staff Software Engineer, Firefox Desktop Integrations
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Mozilla
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Firefox Desktop Integrations
£110k - £162k
United Kingdom
Remote
Description
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 efforts across multiple teams, providing technical leadership, building cross-team relationships, and helping the teams deliver on their objectives. The senior staff engineer is an expert in their domain. They provide feedback on our strategy and goals affecting multiple teams and turn our strategy into coordinated action for those teams. They mentor others by stewarding responsibilities to more junior engineers so they can take on new ones, while collaborating with management on building team consensus and providing direction. Typically, a Senior Staff is a technical lead for multiple teams.
What you’ll do:
Design, develop, and ship the next experience of Firefox features through installs, updates, and OS integrations.
Lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to influence strategic technical decisions for Firefox desktop
Analyze data and metrics to invent new patterns to increase the user engagement during Firefox installation, update, and integration with the host OS
Investigate low-level operating systems programming issues and contribute to design and implement solutions with other teams
Assess what work supports the team and product roadmap and make insightful recommendations in regards to priorities
Support management, peers, and others on team consensus and direction
Analyze data and metrics to innovate on behalf of our users
Improve the quality of Firefox on Windows and/or macOS by hunting down and fixing software defects, improving the experience of hundreds of millions of users
Mentor others by stewarding some of your responsibilities to more junior engineers.
What you’ll bring:
10+ years experience as a Software Engineer
You have experience with low-level systems programming on at least one major platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, any mobile platform).
You possess a solid understanding of C/C++.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and have participated effectively on a distributed team.
Ability to influence roadmaps and execution in the teams you and your team partner with
You’re pragmatic about how to move things forward in specific timeframes including trade-offs and safeguards when implementing new functionality.
You already have development experience on Windows and/or macOS, particularly with low-level Win32/Cocoa API coding.
Experience working collaboratively with product managers, project managers, and/or other non-engineering teams.
Commitment to our values:
Welcoming differences
Being relationship-minded
Practicing responsible participation
Having grit
Bonus Points for:
You have programming experience in Rust.
Additional Linux and/or macOS experience is a bonus, particularly with low level systems programming or operating system internals.
You have previously successfully contributed to an open source project.
Expertise in compilers pipeline design and optimization
Knowledgeable about improving overall compiler performance
Experience in developing installers for operating systems
Role tech stack
Mozilla
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Firefox Desktop Integrations
£110k - £162k
United Kingdom
This role has expired