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The role
Mozilla is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the addons.mozilla.org team, which runs the Firefox add-ons site, developer hub, reviewer tools and moderation systems. The work covers features, reliability and engineering practices on a Python/Django stack.
What you will do
- Deliver features and architecture improvements across AMO, including moderation pipelines, Reviewer tools and DevHub.
- Help set engineering standards such as code review, production readiness, runbooks, incident response and on-call practice.
- Build observability and data-backed insights, and improve CI/CD pipelines as code.
- Create internal tooling that helps teams ship and operate software safely.
- Write design notes, ADRs, runbooks and incident write-ups.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, QA and community contributors.
What they ask for
- Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining production Python/Django applications.
- Experience operating production systems where reliability and safe delivery matter.
- Strong CI/CD experience, treating pipelines and infrastructure as code.
- Understanding of observability: metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs and alerting.
- Ability to trace behavior through unfamiliar codebases across frontend, backend, async jobs and infrastructure.
- Strong technical writing and collaboration in a distributed team.
- Nice to have: Google Cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code.
This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on Mozilla's careers page behind the apply button.
