Senior Privacy Engineer - Web Platform (Remote)

JobFluent; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous performance-based bonus plans

Retirement contributions with 100% 100

Home office stipend

Professional development budget

Parental leave

Employee referral bonus program

Job summary

Mozilla Corporation seeks a Senior Software Engineer to advance Privacy on the Firefox Web Platform. You’ll contribute to anti-tracking and privacy protections, shipping across a global user base from Barcelona or remotely.

You’ll work on Gecko and browser architecture in a distributed Europe/US team, delivering high-performance C++, Rust, and Python tools with an emphasis on privacy and security for everyday web users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related program.
• 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.

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

Memory safety

Multi-threaded

Data streaming

Open source

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related program

Tools

Gecko

Chromium

WebKit

Python

SQL

Rust

C++

Job description

Mozilla Corporation seeks a Senior Software Engineer to advance Privacy on the Firefox Web Platform. You’ll contribute to anti-tracking and privacy protections, shipping across a global user base from Barcelona or remotely.

You’ll work on Gecko and browser architecture in a distributed Europe/US team, delivering high-performance C++, Rust, and Python tools with an emphasis on privacy and security for everyday web users.