Mozilla

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Engineering

Mozilla$104K — $139K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Canada
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in software engineering in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or DevOps
  • Proven technical leadership
  • Expertise in tools like ArgoCD, Grafana, K8s, GitHub, Terraform, and Helm
  • Proficient in Python, JavaScript, or Go
  • Strong expertise in cloud-native technologies, preferably GCP
  • Excellent communication skills to align technology with user needs
  • Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity

Responsibilities

  • Support infrastructure for development teams to operate their services
  • Guide technical decision-making and user-centric solutions
  • Create Claude skills and design workflows to enhance developer productivity
  • Promote engineering best practices focusing on usability and maintainability
  • Facilitate collaboration for cohesive platform delivery
  • Write proposals for new policies and platform functionalities
  • Create valuable new features for the platform

Benefits

  • Generous performance-based bonus plans
  • Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous retirement contributions with immediate vesting
  • Quarterly wellness days for everyone
  • Country specific holidays plus a birthday day off
  • Home office stipend
  • Annual professional development budget
  • Quarterly well-being stipend
  • Considerable paid parental leave
  • Employee referral bonus program
Full Job Description
About this role:

Mozilla's Cloud Engineering team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to mature, maintain, and build features for our Internal Developer Infrastructure Platform. You will work on creating standardized, scalable systems for CI/CD, Observability, Kubernetes optimization, environment bootstrapping, cost optimization, and more. Supporting the Infrastructure needs of the organization and identifying new opportunities to mature the path to production in a safe, cost effective way will also be an integral part of this role.

What you'll do:
  • Support infrastructure that development teams use to own and operate their services at Mozilla.
  • Guide technical decision-making and adoption of user-centric solutions.
  • Create Claude skills and design agentic workflows that improve developer productivity
  • Guide team members and promote engineering standard methodologies, with a focus on usability and maintainability.
  • Facilitate cross-functional collaboration for efficient and cohesive platform delivery.
  • Write proposals and decision briefs for new policies, processes, and platform functionality.
  • Create new features for the platform with a meaningful value proposition
  • Be trusted to resolve unclear but urgent tasks.

What you'll bring:
  • 5+ years experience in software engineering with expertise in at least one of (Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps)
  • Proven technical leadership experience.
  • Expertise in several of the following (ArgoCD, Grafana, K8s, GitHub, Terraform, Helm, Backstage, Cloud Cost Optimization)
  • Proficient in Python, JavaScript, or Go.
  • Strong expertise in cloud-native technologies (GCP preferred; AWS also acceptable).
  • Excellent communication skills aligning technology with user needs and organizational goals.
  • Self-starter who thrives in ambiguity.
  • Curiosity and interest in learning new things
  • Commitment to our values:
    • Welcoming differences
    • Being relationship-minded
    • Practicing responsible participation
    • Having grit

Bonus points for...
  • Experience with distributed systems architecture and design
  • Knowledge of cloud security and governance principles
  • Experience designing agentic workflows
  • Database expertise
  • Experience building Internal Developer Platforms

What you'll get:
  • Generous performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees - we share in our success as one team
  • Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
  • Quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone takes a pause together
  • Country specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday
  • One-time home office stipend
  • Annual professional development budget
  • Quarterly well-being stipend
  • Considerable paid parental leave
  • Employee referral bonus program
  • Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)

Hiring Ranges:

Canada Tier 1 Locations

$104,000-$139,000 CAD

Canada Tier 2 Locations

$95,000-$126,000 CAD

About Mozilla

Mozilla is a global community of technologists, thinkers, and builders working together to keep the internet open and accessible to all. The company is best known for its flagship product, the Firefox web browser, which is used by millions of people around the world. In addition to its browser, Mozilla also develops a range of other products and services, including a mobile operating system, a password manager, and a virtual private network (VPN) service.
Learn more about Mozilla
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1998

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