Senior Software Engineer
Mozilla
Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants
This fully remote full time position at Mozilla is open worldwide, so South Africans can apply. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.
Job Description
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<p><strong>Why Mozilla?</strong></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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. 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. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">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 </span><strong>open-source</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. </span></p>
<strong>About this role:</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a Senior Software Engineer on the Ecosystem Services Team, you’ll build and own back-end systems and the integrations that keep our services running, help maintain and evolve the cloud infrastructure the application runs on, and play an active role in keeping the service reliable and healthy in production. You'll do this while collaborating closely with frontend engineers, product managers, CloudEng, and UX and design partners to deliver reliable features.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are looking for engineers who treat the systems they build as their own: people who are comfortable owning a service end to end, from writing the code to verifying it works as intended in production and monitoring its health. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are hiring for multiple Ecosystem Services Team back-end teams - each solving their own unique challenges to make the web better for everyone. More details about all hiring teams will be shared in the interviews. </span></p>
<strong>About Ecosystem Services:</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ecosystem Services builds and operates the back-end platforms that power Mozilla products and services, with a focus on privacy, security, and delivering critical functionality to Firefox and millions of users worldwide.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our portfolio spans a diverse set of platforms and services. Representative examples include Privacy Services, which provides the APIs and infrastructure behind Mozilla VPN, Relay (email and phone aliasing), and Monitor (data breach detection and remediation); AutoPush, Mozilla's Web Push platform for securely delivering notifications and real-time updates to Firefox clients; and Remote Settings, Mozilla's platform for delivering configuration updates to Firefox outside the regular release cycle. Together with many other backend platforms across the organization, these services help deliver secure, reliable experiences to Mozilla users every day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our teams own services end-to-end from designing and building distributed systems, to operating them in production, improving reliability, and evolving the cloud infrastructure they run on. We work closely with product, frontend engineering, Cloud Engineering, UX, and design partners to build resilient systems that make the web better for everyone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We're hiring backend engineers across multiple Ecosystem Services teams, each tackling different technical challenges while sharing a culture of ownership, collaboration, and operational excellence. More details about the specific teams and domains will be shared during the interview process.</span></p>
<p><strong>What you’ll do: </strong></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead backend development, building and maintaining server-side logic</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take real ownership of the services you work on: deploy them, operate them, and keep them healthy in production rather than handing them off</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work closely with our
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