Mozilla Corporation is looking to improve the performance of its products, including the Firefox browser, by developing effective tools for measuring and improving performance, and the role is focused on delivering an effective toolset for Firefox developers to track down and seize every opportunity to improve the quality of experience for users.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in systems software engineering using C++.
- 1+ year of experience in Rust.
- Expertise in at least one of the following operating system APIs and familiarity with the others: Windows/Linux/macOS/Android.
- Experience working on and debugging large multi-threaded applications and memory management.
- Familiarity with any of the following skills would be a plus: JavaScript, Java, Android development, Python.
Responsibilities
- Develop new features for the Firefox Profiler that will provide browser engineers and web developers with insight to improve the experience for their users.
- Expand the breadth of data captured by the Firefox Profiler without compromising on performance.
- Engage with the performance team efforts such as bug triage and strategy.
- Engage with other Firefox engineers to help them learn how to use our tools efficiently, and develop projects to serve them better.
- Promote and encourage the use of our performance tools within and beyond Mozilla by writing and talking about them.
- Engage with our community and mentor volunteers contributing to the codebase.
Other
- Strong and respectful communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams.
- Commitment to our values: Welcoming differences, Being relationship-minded, Practicing responsible participation, Having grit
- Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting
