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Mozilla

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1998

👥 B2C

🔒 Cybersecurity

B2C • Cybersecurity • Software

Mozilla is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting an open and accessible internet. They are the makers of the popular Firefox browser, which emphasizes user privacy, speed, and control. Mozilla also offers a range of products that focus on internet security and privacy, including Mozilla VPN, Firefox Relay, and Mozilla Monitor. Additionally, the organization is involved in open-source projects, AI innovation, and advocating for digital rights. Mozilla aims to empower users with trustworthy technology and policies that protect privacy, support open-source AI development, and foster accountability for tech companies.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and operate core platform services and APIs used to deploy and serve production workloads at scale. • Own service reliability end-to-end, driving improvements in availability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence. • Lead efforts to optimize backend services for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency across distributed infrastructure. • Design and manage Kubernetes-based workloads, including GitOps deployment pipelines, environment configuration, and resource utilization optimization. • Own and improve critical parts of the service lifecycle, including packaging, versioning, testing strategies, validation, and deployment automation. • Implement and evolve observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) to improve visibility and operational resilience of backend services and pipelines. • Partner closely with product, infrastructure, security, and data teams to design scalable platform capabilities that enable new product features. • Contribute to technical design discussions, propose architectural improvements, and mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing. • Participate in and help improve operational processes, including incident response, on-call rotations, and post-incident reviews.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 4–6 years of relevant industry experience, or Master's degree with significant hands-on experience building and operating production systems, or work experience equivalent • Strong, modern Python skills, with experience writing clean, maintainable code and working with a fast toolchain (dependency management, linting, formatting, type checks, pre-commit), building both libraries and CLIs that output structured data. • Advance experience with database deployment and management, bonus points for familiarity with Postgres • Proven experience deploying and operating workloads in cloud environments, including production-grade infrastructure on GCP and GKE (artifact registries, managed caches, networking and internal load balancing, VPC, DNS, and separation of nonprod and prod). • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm, writing charts that deploy across environments with per-environment configuration and progressive feature rollout. • Experience with Terraform for provisioning infrastructure across environments, including schema validation and PR-level plan review. • Experience designing and running scalable APIs that hold up under load, including health and readiness checks, auth, and clean startup and shutdown. • Experience with Grafana or similar tools for metrics, dashboards, and reading application and infrastructure health together during rollouts. • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug performance and reliability issues in distributed systems. • Clear and effective communication skills, with experience collaborating across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams. • On-call experience, including participating in incident response and post-incident reviews.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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)