Staff Software Engineer, Operations - Remote (France)

Mozilla Corporation; France; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 87,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous bonus plans

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement contributions with vesting

Home office stipend

Professional development budget

Job summary

Mozilla is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Operations to help scale the Add-ons platform. You’ll work with engineers, reviewers, developer relations, and leadership to turn ideas into polished features, modernize the platform, and reach millions of users worldwide.

You’ll plan features across the Add-ons stack, improve reliability, and mentor colleagues while maintaining strong security and trust. This role offers a remote-France arrangement with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Experience leading and building modern web applications.
• Strong experience with Python/Django or similar backend frameworks.
• Understanding of web security principles and practices.
• Strong collaboration and communication in distributed teams.
• Adept at navigating ambiguity and shaping engineering direction.
• Experience mentoring and supporting junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver major features and architectural improvements across the Add-ons stack.
• Partner with Engineering management to set Operations Engineering standards (SLOs, incident management, observability baselines).
• Mentor engineers, sharing knowledge and delegating responsibilities to help others grow.
• Improve platform reliability through deployments, monitoring, and incident response.
• Help keep the platform safe and trustworthy, with attention to security and user trust.
• Step in to resolve issues impacting users and developers, from small bugs to larger incidents.
• Collaborate with designers, product managers, QA, and community contributors to deliver end-to-end improvements.
• Contribute in the open through pull requests, code reviews, and discussions.

Skills

Web app development

Python/Django

Web security

Collaboration

Problem solving

Stakeholder alignment

Mentoring

Job description

Mozilla is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Operations to help scale the Add-ons platform. You’ll work with engineers, reviewers, developer relations, and leadership to turn ideas into polished features, modernize the platform, and reach millions of users worldwide.

You’ll plan features across the Add-ons stack, improve reliability, and mentor colleagues while maintaining strong security and trust. This role offers a remote-France arrangement with a comprehensive benefits package.