Engineering Manager

Mozilla; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mozilla Ads Engineering is seeking a senior engineering leader to mentor and grow a team responsible for privacy-respecting advertising systems. You will guide backend services, partner integrations, experiments, and product-facing work while balancing privacy, policy, UX, and business needs.

You will work with product managers and cross-functional teams to clarify requirements, ensure reliability and security, and hire and onboard engineers to strengthen the group over time.

Qualifikationen

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with 2+ years in people management.
• Track record delivering production software in complex environments.
• Strong judgment on prioritization, delivery, and sustainability.

Aufgaben

• Mentor, support, and develop a team of software engineers.
• Lead delivery of Firefox Suggest Ads initiatives, backend services, and integrations.
• Partner with product managers and stakeholders to navigate ambiguity.
• Ensure software aligns with Mozilla’s quality, security, and privacy standards.
• Foster a healthy team environment and participate in hiring and onboarding.

Kenntnisse

People management

Team leadership

Production software delivery

Prioritization & execution

Distributed/asynchronous work

Collaboration with PMs

Privacy-sensitive domains

Jobbeschreibung

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.

What you’ll do:

• 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

What you’ll bring:

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of people management experience
• A track record of leading teams that successfully deliver production software
• Strong judgment around prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including planning, issue triage, and delivery workflows
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and partner teams to deliver outcomes
• Experience supporting engineers with varied skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experience
• Comfort working in a distributed, asynchronous environment
• Experience 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 balanced

Commitment to our values:

• Welcoming differences
• Being relationship-minded
• Practicing responsible participation
• Having grit 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, At least 2 years of people management experience, Track record of leading teams that successfully deliver production software, Strong judgment around prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability, Familiarity with modern software development practices (planning, issue triage, delivery workflows), Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and partner teams, Experience supporting engineers with varied skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experience, Comfort working in a distributed, asynchronous environment, Experience in search, ads, recommendations, marketplaces, browser/client-platform integrations, or other privacy-sensitive product domains