Staff Software Engineer, Add-on Operations New
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Job description
As a Staff Software Engineer - Operations, you'll bring a passion for crafting resilient systems that accelerate our review and operations team to provide a first-class experience for Add-on developers. You'll work closely with engineers, reviewers, developer relations, and Add-ons leadership to turn ideas into polished features, modernize the platform and its architecture, and see your work reach millions of people around the world.
What you'll do:
- Plan and deliver major features and architectural improvements across the Add-ons stack, including automated moderation pipelines, Reviewer tools, and DevHub.
- Partner with Engineering management to set Operations Engineering standards (SLOs, incident management, observability baselines).
- Mentor engineers, sharing knowledge and delegating responsibilities to help others grow.
- Improve platform reliability through deployments, monitoring, and incident response.
- Help keep the platform safe and trustworthy, with attention to security and user trust.
- Step in to resolve issues impacting users and developers, from small bugs to larger incidents.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, QA, and community contributors to deliver end-to-end improvements.
- Contribute in the open through pull requests, code reviews, and discussions.
- Work on:
- Full stack development: React/TypeScript frontends, Django backend, MySQL datastore.
- Platform reliability: deployments, monitoring, and incident response on Google Cloud.
- Feature development: submission flows, trust and safety signals, DevHub and Reviewer tools modernization.
- Ecosystem moderation: abuse report management, policy compliance, and ecosystem safety.
- Open collaboration: We work in the open, with contributions from Mozilla staff and community members.
Requirements
Do you have experience in TypeScript?, * Experience leading and building modern web applications.
- Strong experience with Python/Django or similar backend frameworks.
- Understanding of web security principles and practices.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills in a distributed team environment.
- Adept at navigating ambiguity, exploring solutions, and shaping direction in new problem spaces.
- Ability to work across teams and align stakeholders on engineering vision.
- Experience mentoring and supporting junior engineers.
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
Bonus points for:
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud or similar).
- Contributions to open source projects.
- Experience with policy-compliant ecosystem moderation tools.
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.