Firefox OS Integration Engineer - Crash Reporting
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Job description
The OS Integration team ensures Firefox and other Gecko-based products harmonize well with the host operating system and environment. This includes native crash reporting, OS abstraction layers, sandboxing and hardening. We're a distributed team with expertise in Windows, macOS, and Linux-based operating systems with this role focusing on macOS.
In this role, you will be a member of the OS Integration team specializing in crash reporting for Firefox. You will help to maintain and evolve client-side crash and error reporting across supported operating systems, enabling other engineers to maintain a high quality of our products.
What you'll do:
- Develop, test, and ship fixes and new features for Firefox crash reporting, with a focus on creating a high-quality user and developer experience.
- Work in the open source Mozilla codebase touching a variety of technologies including C++, rust and JavaScript.
- Maintain and evolve code that detects and reports crashes. In doing so you will interact with low-level OS primitives.
- You will analyze crash data and come up with insights about it
- Grow your expertise while collaborating with a distributed team and participating in technical discussions, planning, code reviews, and problem solving.
- Break down problems into manageable units, seek early feedback, and document your design choices to foster learning and alignment.
Requirements
- A degree in Computer Science or in an affine topic or comparable work experience.
- The desire to understand the nitty-gritty details of stack walking and post-mortem analysis of a process.
- Proven fluency in Rust and/or C++, for two years in a professional environment. Knowledge of compiler, debugger or OS development are bonuses.
- Ideally some engineering work examples of low-level programming.
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative mindset.
- Willingness to work effectively in a distributed team environment.
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
Benefits & conditions
- 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)
About Mozilla
Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled. When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.