Software Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering

Mozilla Foundation; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Health/Dental/Vision coverage

Retirement contributions with vesting

Wellness days and stipend

Professional development budget

Paid parental leave

Home office stipend

Job summary

Mozilla Foundation is seeking a senior leader to steer MozCloud Platform engineering, focusing on automation, self-serve tooling, and data-driven delivery.

You will design architecture, manage roadmaps, drive collaboration across teams, optimize FinOps, and raise observability and security standards while advancing CI/CD with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.

Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering experience with at least 5 years in a team leadership role.
• Hands-on leadership in transitioning to agentic software development.
• Deep Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, IAM, and WAF expertise; cloud experience with GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on automation and self-serve tooling.
• Design and architecture for MozCloud Platform services.
• Manage roadmaps across team focus areas aligned with strategy.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration on infrastructure milestones.
• Manage cloud and infrastructure costs (FinOps).
• Set observability standards and improve security with Product Security.
• Improve CI/CD around GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Team management

Cloud platforms (GCP)

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

IAM

WAF

Leadership & communication

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team focused on automation, self serve tooling, and data driven delivery engineering
• Lead design and architecture for MozCloud Platform services
• Manage roadmaps across team focus areas in alignment with organizational strategy
• Drive cross-functional collaboration on infrastructure platform milestones
• Manage and optimize cloud and agentic infrastructure costs (FinOps)
• Set the standard for observability and implement security improvements with Product Security
• Improve CI/CD systems around GitHub Actions and ArgoCD

Requirements

• 10+ years software engineering experience, including at least 5 years of team management
• Hands-on experience leading transition to agentic software development
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, IAM, WAF
• Proficiency with multiple cloud platforms, particularly GCP
• Strong leadership and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of cloud security principles
• Open source software involvement

Benefits

• Performance-based bonus plans
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement contributions with immediate vesting
• Quarterly wellness days and well-being stipend
• Annual professional development budget
• Paid parental leave
• Home office stipend

About the Company

Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation and builds open-source software such as Firefox to make the internet better for everyone.