Staff Solutions 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><strong>Mozilla Corporation</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is a non-profit-backed technology company that has helped shape the internet for the better over the past 25 years. We’re the makers of </span><strong>Firefox</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the privacy-focused web browser used by more than 225 million people around the world each month. As we look to the future, we’re working to shape the next 25 years of the internet—one that’s built for people, not just for profit.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the </span><strong>501(c) non-profit Mozilla Foundation</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, meaning we’re accountable not to shareholders, but to our mission. Alongside thousands of contributors and collaborators around the world, Mozillians design, build, and maintain open-source software that empowers people to use the internet on their own terms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re now seeking a </span><strong>Senior Solutions Engineer (DACH)</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to support the growth of Firefox Enterprise across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. This is a highly customer-facing technical role focused on helping enterprises evaluate, validate, and deploy Firefox Enterprise in secure, complex, and regulated environments.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The ideal candidate brings deep technical credibility, strong enterprise architecture experience, and a passion for helping customers solve real-world security, deployment, and interoperability challenges.</span></p>
<strong>What you'll do:</strong>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Partner with Sales to support strategic enterprise opportunities across DACH.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead technical discovery and solution design with customers and partners.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Run workshops with customer stakeholders across security, infrastructure, IAM, endpoint management, and workplace technology.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Own the relationship to the customer’s technical counterparts during and after the sales process. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Help customers evaluate Firefox Enterprise in areas such as deployment, policy management, identity integration, logging, security controls, and operational fit.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Design and support pilots, proofs of concept, and rollout plans.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Advise customers on deployment models, architecture decisions, and integration approaches for enterprise environments.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Validate interoperability across systems such as SSO, MFA, SIEM, proxy/network controls, endpoint tooling, certificates/PKI, and browser policy frameworks.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identify and help resolve technical risks early, including application compatibility, certificate handling, deployment complexity, and policy enforcement requirements.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Create reusable technical assets such as reference architectures, deployment guidance, validation plans, and technical enablement materials.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Support and enable partners involved in deployment, integration, and customer success.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Champion Mozilla’s values of openness, trust, and user agency in every customer interaction.</span></li>
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<strong>What you'll bring:</strong>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Significant experience (7+ years) in a senior Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, Security Architect, or Technical Account Manager role.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ideally deep knowledge of the DACH IT landscape, particularly within the public sector, financial services, or KRITIS (Critical Infrastructure) operators .</span></li>
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Tips for South African Applicants
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.
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