Staff Application Engineer, Salesforce
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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<strong>Why Mozilla?</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla Corporation is a 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 open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.</span></p>
<strong>About this team and role:</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla IT is seeking a Staff Application Engineer, Salesforce to architect, build, and own the Salesforce platform that runs sales and revenue operations across our enterprise product lines. This is an opportunity to build Salesforce Sales Cloud from scratch to support our Enterprise products. You'll join at the start of the implementation, work alongside our implementation partner through go-live, and then own the platform outright.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You'll also help shape how we work with AI, reimagine the headless experience for our end users, and build Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations that let our sales team work with CRM data through AI assistants and agentic workflows.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a hands-on staff-level individual contributor role. You will set technical direction, make architecture decisions, build solutions, and establish practices that allow the platform to grow sustainably.</span></p>
<strong>What success looks like:</strong>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During implementation, you will:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Establish a scalable Salesforce architecture covering data models, business-unit structure, security, integrations, and release management.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Partner effectively with the implementation team while building the internal knowledge Mozilla needs to operate the platform independently.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deliver a production-ready Sales Cloud foundation for the Firefox Enterprise launch.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After launch, you will:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Own the technical health and evolution of the Salesforce platform, supported by documented architecture, governance, release, and support practices.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Develop a prioritized roadmap for lead-to-cash capabilities, including contracting, entitlements, delivery tracking, renewals, and finance integrations.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Deliver and evaluate secure AI-assisted workflows that reduce manual work without weakening data governance or user accountability.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Improve platform reliability, data quality, release confidence, and user experience through measurable operational improvements.</span></li>
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<strong>What you'll do:</strong>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead the architecture and hands-on development of Mozilla's Salesforce platform across multiple enterprise product lines, and review designs and custom code from internal and external contributors.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Define scalable data models, account and opportunity structures, sales processes, role hierarchies, record types, and sharing rules.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Build and maintain platform capabilities using Salesforce Flow, validation rules, approval processes, cus
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Timezone Advantage
South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.
Salary in Context
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About Mozilla
Mozilla is a company in the Firefox industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 27 open positions on Hirezar. View all Mozilla jobs →