Engineering Manager (Ads)

Mozilla; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Mental health support

Parental leave

Job summary

Mozilla is seeking an Engineering Manager for Ads Engineering in Ottawa to lead Firefox Suggest Ads backend services, integrations, and experimentation capabilities while upholding privacy and product quality. You will mentor engineers, drive delivery in a distributed environment, and partner with product, data, privacy, policy, and revenue teams to ensure high-quality software.

You will help grow a healthy, inclusive team culture, oversee hiring and onboarding, and balance people leadership

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in people management.
• Strong judgment on prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Experience leading teams delivering production software in distributed/asynchronous environments.
• Experience collaborating with product managers and partner teams to deliver outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of software engineers building Firefox Suggest Ads backend services, partner integrations, experimentation capabilities, and product-facing systems.
• Mentor, support and develop engineers to grow in impact and craft.
• Partner with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to navigate ambiguity and shape technical decisions, privacy and policy considerations.
• Ensure software is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with Mozilla’s quality, security, and privacy standards.
• Foster a positive, inclusive team culture and participate in hiring and onboarding.

Skills

Relationship-minded

Welcoming differences

Modern software practices

Team leadership

Ads/Privacy domains

Cross-functional collaboration

People management

Prioritization

Mentoring

Grit

Job description

• The Ads Engineering organization at Mozilla builds privacy-respecting advertising systems that support Mozilla’s products and business while aligning with our mission and values. Our teams focus on reliable, scalable systems that enable advertising experiences across Mozilla products
• As an Engineering Manager on Ads Engineering, you will lead a team of software engineers working on Firefox Suggest Ads, the sponsored suggestion experiences within Firefox Suggest. This team builds and operates backend services, partner integrations, experimentation capabilities, and product-facing systems that help deliver relevant sponsored suggestions in Firefox while respecting user privacy and product quality expectations
• You’ll be responsible for building a healthy, effective team; partnering closely with Product, Data, Privacy, Policy, Revenue, and Firefox engineering stakeholders; and ensuring your team delivers high-quality software in support of Ads Engineering goals
• This role balances people leadership, execution, and collaboration, with a strong emphasis on mentoring engineers, navigating ambiguity, delivering results, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture
• Mentor, support, and develop a team of software engineers, helping them grow in impact and craft
• Lead your team through the delivery of Firefox Suggest Ads initiatives, including backend services, partner integrations, experimentation, measurement, reliability improvements, and product-facing integrations where requirements may evolve as privacy, policy, user experience, and business constraints become clearer
• Partner with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to navigate ambiguity, particularly where user data, privacy expectations, or policy considerations shape technical and product decisions
• Ensure the software your team builds is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with Mozilla’s quality, security, and privacy standards
• Create an environment where engineers can do their best work, including healthy team processes, clear communication, and support through uncertainty
• Participate in hiring and onboarding to grow and strengthen the team over time

Benefits

• Health and wellness: Mozilla covers medical, dental and vision plan premiums at 100% for U.S. and Canadian employees. Our offerings give you the options you need to manage your health — and your family’s — the way you want.
• Mental health: Mental health is as important as our physical health. That’s why Mozilla’s health benefits include therapy and coaching sessions to make sure our people have access to the care they need.
• Time away: With all of life’s demands, time away from work to disconnect and recharge is essential. In addition to country-specific holidays (12 in the U.S. and Canada), vacation and sick time start accruing right away (specifics vary by country). Everyone also takes a pause together on quarterly all-company wellness days, plus you get to celebrate the most personal holiday of all: your birthday.
• Parental leave: While Mozilla’s parental leave policies vary globally, our U.S. and Canadian-based employees can look forward to 26 weeks of paid leave for childbearing parents and 12 weeks of paid leave for non-childbearing parents.
• Financial: Mozilla is a private company, so our compensation isn’t tied to stock options or equity plans. Instead, we offer generous, performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees to underscore that we share in our success as one team. As for retirement savings for US and Canadian employees, Mozilla contributes a percentage of your eligible base salary each year to the 401(k) Plan/RRSP (regardless of whether you contribute or not), with 100% vesting.
• Learning and development: We’re big believers in learning by doing, and we also want to invest in your education and development beyond your role. Every employee is eligible for an annual professional development budget. Mozillians can put it toward technical or management training, certifications, conferences and more.
• Help when you need it: Life is full of surprises; that’s why it’s important to be prepared. Mozilla provides Life/AD&D and Short and Long Term Disability insurance (offerings may vary by locale) to ensure that you and your family will have a safety net in place should you ever need it.
• Plus a bit more: A few other benefits include a quarterly wellbeing stipend (to use on those things just for you), an employee referral bonus, internet reimbursement if you’re remote, and a budget for office essentials to make working remotely ergonomically comfortable.

Being relationship-mindedWelcoming differencesCommitment to our values:Practicing responsible participationFamiliarity with modern software development practicesA track record of leading teams that successfully deliver production softwareComfort working in a distributed, asynchronous environmentExperience in search, ads, recommendations, marketplaces, browser/client-platform integrations, or other privacy-sensitive product domains — or demonstrated ability to quickly learn complex domains where user trust, data practices, and business outcomes must be balancedAbility to collaborate effectively with product managers and partner teams to deliver outcomes6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of people management experienceStrong judgment around prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainabilityExperience supporting engineers with varied skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experienceHaving grit