Senior Software Engineer (Contract)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related program; or equivalent work experience.
• At least 4 years of experience with programming in C++ and Rust, with a strong background in memory safety, multi-threaded system architecture, or raw data stream manipulation.
• Proven ability to onboard quickly, deliver and improve complex software projects.
• Proven track record of independently scoping and landing complex features within tight release windows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can validate your progress and decisions and communicate them clearly.

Nice to Haves:

• You have already contributed to the Mozilla mission and the codebase.
• Experience working within the browser space (Gecko, Chromium, WebKit) or web engine runtime abstractions.
• Experience or high interest in designing or leveraging ML pipelines to automate internal developer workflows.
• Deep understanding of web architecture, the privacy/security model of the web, and client-side data structures.
• Knowledge of basic statistical modeling.
• Proficiency with Python and SQL.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Implement Privacy-improving, anti-tracking features and data sanitization into the Firefox web browser to prevent all forms of unhealthy user tracking.
• Implement architectural improvements into Gecko, the browser engine underlying Firefox.
• Build performant, low-latency, and maintainable C++, JavaScript and Rust code.
• Work as part of a geographically distributed team in an asynchronous manner (mostly Europe and US-East).

Perks and Benefits:

• You will be working at Mozilla, an organization that builds the Internet as a public resource accessible to all.
• You will have the chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at Mozilla.
• Equal opportunity employer with a focus on creating an inclusive work environment.