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Senior Software Engineer, Firefox Security

Mozilla· Firefox
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Remote£66k - £87kfull-timePosted 6d ago

About the role

Senior software engineer focused on designing, building, and improving security and hardening features for Firefox, with emphasis on cross-platform security architecture, security initiatives, and performance/reliability improvements for enterprise users.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and implement security and hardening features for enterprise users: Design, implement, test, and ship cutting-edge security features that strengthen Firefox’s security posture.
  • Advance Firefox’s security architecture across multiple operating systems: Contribute to and drive cutting-edge improvements to Firefox’s core security posture, by building privilege isolation and moving trust boundaries or strengthen Firefox’s security architecture: Improve Firefox’s core security mechanisms including cryptographic protocols, WebPKI, and security-sensitive web APIs.
  • Contribute to our security initiatives: Work across teams to investigate security issues, identify root causes, and deliver robust, maintainable fixes.
  • Improve browser reliability and performance: Diagnose and resolve issues affecting stability, correctness, performance, and memory usage in a complex, multithreaded environment.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in low-level software engineering, strong proficiency in C and/or C++, and a solid understanding of security fundamentals.
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving issues in multithreaded, cross-platform native applications, including memory and performance challenges.
  • Familiarity with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and interest or experience in Rust; ability to work effectively within large, complex, multi-language codebases.
  • Experience working with distributed teams and communicating technical ideas clearly in writing and conversation.

Skills

Required:Systems programmingC/C++Debugging multithreaded cross-platform native appsWeb technologies
Nice to have:Rust

Benefits

  • Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our success as one team
  • 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)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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