Staff Software Engineer, Networking

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer
• Skilled in C++ and Rust. Proficient in other languages
• Skilled professional in HTTP protocols and implementations (HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC, TLS, etc.)
• Experience implementing networking standards in production code
• Familiarity with congestion control principles and modern OS dataplane primitives
• Experience performing high level system design, project planning, roadmap strategy, and resourcing
• Experience and comfortable working with distributed teams
• Excellent communication skills, positive, team-oriented
• Experience with conflict resolution and decision making
• Actively coaches and shares knowledge
• Experience working on a cross-platform native application
• Creative problem-solver and skilled debugger
• Experience writing and debugging multi-threaded code
• Experience with understanding and contributing to a large and complex multi-language code base

What you'll be doing

• Improve Firefox’s web browsing experience with a focus on networking stack, network-related protocols, and APIs
• Design and implement new web platform features, or improvements to existing ones, in collaboration with the web community
• Diagnose and fix problems in the multi-threaded codebase
• Diagnose and fix platform-specific networking issues
• Improve Firefox’s stability, correctness, and performance
• Analyze and reduce Firefox’s memory usage
• Work cooperatively with other Mozillians to identify and correct issues

What you'll get

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
• Country-specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
• One-time home office stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Quarterly well-being stipend
• Considerable paid parental leave
• Employee referral bonus program
• Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)