Key skills
Communication
About this role
Role Overview
- Mentor, support, and develop a team of software engineers, helping them grow in impact and craft
- Lead your team through the delivery of projects and initiatives where problem definition may evolve as requirements, constraints, and learnings become clearer
- Partner with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to navigate ambiguity, particularly where user data, privacy expectations, or policy considerations shape technical and product decisions
- Ensure the software your team builds is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with Mozilla’s quality, security, and privacy standards
- Create an environment where engineers can do their best work, including healthy team processes, clear communication, and support through uncertainty
- Participate in hiring and onboarding to grow and strengthen the team over time
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of people management experience
- A track record of leading teams that successfully deliver production software
- Strong judgment around prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
- Familiarity with modern software development practices, including planning, issue triage, and delivery workflows
- Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and partner teams to deliver outcomes
- Experience supporting engineers with varied skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experience
- Comfort working in a distributed, asynchronous environment
- Experience in digital advertising or advertising platforms, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn privacy-sensitive domains
- Commitment to our values:
- Welcoming differences
- Being relationship-minded
- Practicing responsible participation
- Having grit
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)