Software Engineer - Data Collection Tools

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Why Mozilla?

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people. 

The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. 

About this team and role:

As a Software Engineer at in Mozilla's Data Engineering team, you’ll be taking a lead role in a cross-functional team to ensure the quality of data and insights, from product instrumentation through to the applications we use to perform analysis. Check out the Data@Mozilla blog for more details on some of our work.

What you’ll do:

• You will be sharing responsibility for setting the vision and strategy for our multi-language, cross-platform, browser-scale data collection tools
• You will have significant impact on the effectiveness of the organization by overseeing major improvements to our data collection and analysis infrastructure through:
• Meeting with leaders throughout the organization to understand their data needs
• Translating those needs into practical requirements
• Designing and proposing systems to satisfy those requirements
• Leading and participating in the implementation of those systems
• You will design, build and apply systems and tools to empower product teams to effectively and autonomously collect data in their products
• You will work with data scientists to answer questions and guide product decision

What you’ll bring: 

• Expertise with at least one of the following programming languages TypeScript, Python, Rust, C++, as well as basic knowledge of SQL and the willingness to learn one or more of the other languages used by our team
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: modularity, abstraction, data structures, and algorithms
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a geographically distributed team across different timezones
• Ability to effectively prioritize and direct work to maximize impact in meeting business needs
• Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively, both through writing and verbally, in order to create and further discussion around documentation, proposals, decision briefs and other communication channels.

Specific Skills/Experience:

Our team requires skills in a variety of domains. Strong candidates will have at least 3 of the following skills and attributes:

• Use of data to answer specific questions and inform team decisions
• Experience navigating and working within large code-bases
• Experience with the implementation of features that require changes to multiple systems (e.g. clients, ETLs)
• Ability to support and mentor other engineers in their growth
• Ability and willingness to learn other programming languages as needed
• Experience with front-end development
• Experience with data collection within products in production
• Developing open source software in the open

What you’ll get:

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all regular 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.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Mozilla understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission.  We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.

We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at hiringaccommodation@mozilla.com to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws.  Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

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ReqID: R2778