Senior Software Engineer, Add-Ons
Mozilla· Firefox
Hybrid (Spain)€58k - €77kfull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior Software Engineer role focusing on the Add-ons ecosystem (AMO) at Mozilla, delivering features, improving platform architecture, and accelerating review/moderation workflows for Add-on developers, with emphasis on Python/Django, CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability.
Responsibilities
- Deliver major features and architectural improvements across the Add-ons stack, including automated moderation pipelines, Reviewer tools, and DevHub.
- Help establish and maintain engineering standards across areas such as code review, definition of done, production readiness, runbooks, incident response, on-call practices, coding conventions, and infrastructure as code.
- Create robust observability systems and data-backed insights.
- Provide peer feedback, share knowledge and help others grow.
- Build and improve the systems that enable Add-ons engineering to safely develop, deploy, observe, and operate production services.
- Improve our CI/CD pipelines using declarative, pipeline-as-code approaches that make changes reproducible, testable, and easy to review.
- Deliver work iteratively using a visible backlog, short feedback cycles, retrospectives, and demonstrations to stakeholders.
- Write clear technical documentation, including design notes, Architecture Decision Records, runbooks, and incident write-ups.
- Work effectively in unfamiliar codebases, tracing requests and asynchronous jobs end-to-end to understand failures and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Collaborate with designers, product managers, QA, and community contributors to deliver end-to-end improvements.
- Contribute in the open through pull requests, code reviews, and discussions.
- Feature development: submission flows, trust and safety signals, DevHub and Reviewer tools modernization.
- AMO application systems: Python/Django, MySQL, React/TypeScript, and asynchronous processing systems.
- Internal developer platforms: tools to help teams ship and operate software safely and consistently.
- Team Process: contribute to ceremonies, process improvements, and provide feedback on team effectiveness.
- Engineering standards: production readiness, testing, recoverability, documentation, safe deployment.
- Platform reliability: deployments, monitoring, incident response.
Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining production applications with Python/Django.
- Experience operating and improving production software systems with focus on reliability and safe delivery.
- Strong experience with CI/CD systems and declarative infrastructure as code.
- Experience designing or improving automated testing and deployment workflows, including integration testing and staged or progressive delivery.
- Strong understanding of observability (metrics, logging, tracing, SLOs, alerting).
- Experience building or maintaining internal tools or platforms used by other engineering teams.
- Experience defining or improving engineering practices (code review standards, operational readiness, runbooks, incident response, on-call, definitions of done).
- Ability to read unfamiliar codebases and trace behavior across frontend, backend, async jobs, data stores, and infrastructure.
- Experience debugging complex production issues and driving lasting improvements.
- Strong technical writing skills (design documents, ADRs, runbooks, incident reports).
- Experience working with a visible backlog and stakeholder feedback leading to concrete improvements.
- Strong collaboration and communication in a distributed team.
- Willingness to mentor peers in operational and reliability practices.
- Commitment to Mozilla values: welcoming differences, relationship-minded, responsible participation, grit.
Skills
Required:PythonDjangoCI/CDObservabilityTesting/Deployment automationPlatform reliabilityDocumentation
Benefits
- Generous performance-based bonus plans
- Rich medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting
- Quarterly all-company wellness days
- Country-specific holidays plus a birthday day off
- One-time home office stipend
- Annual professional development budget
- Quarterly well-being stipend
- Generous paid parental leave
- Employee referral bonus program
- Other benefits (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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