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The role
Mozilla is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Ecosystem Services team, which builds and operates back-end platforms behind Mozilla products such as VPN, Relay and Monitor. Engineers own their services end to end, including production operation. Several back-end teams are hiring.
What you will do
- Lead backend development, building and maintaining server-side logic
- Own services end to end: deploy them, operate them and keep them healthy in production
- Maintain production environments with the cloud engineering team using OpenTelemetry, Sentry, Prometheus and Grafana
- Join an on-call rotation to triage and resolve production issues
- Rotate into a support role handling releases, dependency updates and work requests
- Contribute to API design, code reviews, and security and privacy reviews
What they ask for
- 4+ years of software development focused on backend technologies
- Strong professional experience with Python, TypeScript/Node.js or Rust building back-end services
- Proficiency with PostgreSQL, SQL optimization, schema design and migrations with a query builder such as Knex
- Hands-on DevOps on Google Cloud Platform with Docker-based build and deploy pipelines
- Experience with observability tooling such as Sentry and Grafana
- Strong engineering judgment under ambiguity and a commitment to shipping reliable work
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.
