Mozilla

Actively Hiring

Staff Engineer

Remote, United Kingdom

Contract

Role Overview

You will help the Firefox DOM LWS team to implement tasks for Storage Encryption everywhere, helping to drive the in-progress project through to completion.

About Mozilla

Mozilla is the maker of Firefox and a trusted champion of the open web, dedicated to keeping the internet a global public resource, open and accessible to all.

Key Responsibilities

Contributing to delivering Storage Encryption Everywhere in Gecko, which may include tasks such as migrating data between schemas, implementing data storage in PBM and integration testing

Write and pass Web Platform Tests, and add Gecko tests as needed

Work through code review with the relevant Gecko module owners and iterate to landing

Surface and help resolve any specification questions the implementation raises

Shepherd the feature through Nightly, Beta, and Release. Fix correctness, performance issues and regressions

Requirements & Eligibility

Strong C++
Substantial experience in a browser-engine codebase, ideally Firefox/Gecko
Substantial experience in databases
Familiarity with web standards and Web Platform Tests
Strong debugging and optimization in a multithreaded codebase
Comfort working in the open: public bugs, code review, and upstream landing

Required Skills & Tech

C++FirefoxGeckoDatabasesWeb Platform TestsMultithreading