Frontend Software Engineer, Firefox

Mozilla Corporation is a non-profit-backed technology company known for shaping the internet through pioneering brands like Firefox. The Firefox team is seeking Frontend Software Engineers to improve Firefox features and work collaboratively with a global open-source community to enhance user experience and retention.

Responsibilities:

• Improving existing Firefox features
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams to implement entirely new features
• Analyzing performance problems in Firefox to identify areas that need improvement
• Synthesizing bug reports into actionable tasks
• Ensuring Firefox aligns with relevant standards and works with real websites
• Increasing the quality of the data we collect to enable better decisions

Requirements:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• The desire and ability to create excellent documentation
• A good grasp of JavaScript, HTML and CSS
• Some knowledge of C++ and/or Rust
• Motivation to learn new tools and techniques for improving existing software
• BS in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
• Interest in multi-threaded systems, performance analysis, and optimization
• Familiarity with one or more of the following areas: parsing (e.g. compilers, DBMSes, etc.)
• multi-threaded systems
• performance analysis and optimization
• Experience with migrating a codebase to Rust
• A history of working with distributed teams
• Experience working with a large codebase