Remote Senior APZ Software Engineer — Firefox Rendering

Applying; United States; Remote; USD 116,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonus

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement contributions

Home office stipend

Wellness days

Job summary

Mozilla Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for APZ (Asynchronous Pan & Zoom) to help advance Firefox rendering in a remote US setting. You’ll collaborate with Mozillians to build high-quality, open-source software that powers the web.

You’ll contribute across the stack with C/C++ and Rust, tackle performance and memory optimizations, participate in code reviews, and help triage and fix complex bugs, all while maintaining strong communication with the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in CS.
• Experience developing C/C++ and/or Rust applications.
• Strong debugging and optimization skills in a multi-threaded environment.
• Experience with memory and performance optimization tools.
• Proven record of finishing projects spanning several months.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to quickly learn and be effective with a large code base.

Responsibilities

• Work cooperatively with other Mozillians to identify and correct issues, and ask for help as needed
• Write high-quality, performant, open source, and standards compliant code
• Develop innovative layout, graphics, and user interaction techniques, algorithms and tools to maximize the rendering quality and performance of Firefox
• Participate in regular code reviews, team meetings and long-term planning
• Help triage and test bugs, taking the initiative to drill down to root causes and explore potential solutions

Skills

C/C++

Rust

Debugging

Performance

Multi-threaded

Communication

Codebase knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Mozilla Corporation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for APZ (Asynchronous Pan & Zoom) to help advance Firefox rendering in a remote US setting. You’ll collaborate with Mozillians to build high-quality, open-source software that powers the web.

You’ll contribute across the stack with C/C++ and Rust, tackle performance and memory optimizations, participate in code reviews, and help triage and fix complex bugs, all while maintaining strong communication with the team.