Senior Privacy Engineer - Anti-Tracking Web Security Remote

Mozilla; France; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous performance-based bonus plans

Home office stipend

Annual professional development budget

Parental leave

Job summary

Mozilla is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support the Privacy Team and advance the Firefox Web Platform. You will contribute to privacy protections, anti-tracking efforts, and architecture improvements in Gecko while building high-quality C++, JavaScript, and Rust code.

The role is distributed across Europe and the US-East with a remote-friendly setup for France, offering impact at web scale and a mission-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related program; or equivalent work experience.
• At least 4 years of experience with programming in C++ and Rust, with a strong background in memory safety, multi-threaded system architecture, or raw data stream manipulation.
• Proven ability to onboard quickly, deliver and improve complex software projects.
• Proven track record of independently scoping and landing complex features within tight release windows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Implement Privacy-improving, anti-tracking and threat intelligence protection into the Firefox web browser to mitigate user tracking and phishing.
• Implement architectural improvements into Gecko, the browser engine underlying Firefox.
• Build performant, low-latency, and maintainable C++, JavaScript and Rust code.
• Work as part of a geographically distributed team in an asynchronous manner (mostly Europe and US-East).

Skills

C++

Rust

JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Mozilla is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support the Privacy Team and advance the Firefox Web Platform. You will contribute to privacy protections, anti-tracking efforts, and architecture improvements in Gecko while building high-quality C++, JavaScript, and Rust code.

The role is distributed across Europe and the US-East with a remote-friendly setup for France, offering impact at web scale and a mission-driven environment.