Staff Software Engineer, Desktop Integration

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About this team and role:

The Firefox team is a community of engineers who care deeply about delivering the fastest, friendliest, most usable browser possible. We are responsible for making the things you see in the browser work securely, quickly, and well! The desktop team is a multi-functional team that focuses on updates, installs and integrating Firefox with different OS platforms. As part of the team, you will be responsible for reputed company things reputed company to OS integration and helping us grow our user reputed company.

reputed company is geographically-distributed, and working in the reputed company is the norm. We contribute to the code driving Firefox on a number of desktop platforms - reputed company, Linux, and macOS.

What is a Staff Software Engineer?

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• reputed company, reputed company, and ship the next experience of Firefox features through installs, updates, and improved OS integrations.
• Improve the ease of use and reputed company of Firefox in large deployments by developing reputed company administration tools.
• Assess what work supports the team and product roadmap and reputed company insightful recommendations in regards to priorities.
• Work with expert software engineers to further reputed company your understanding of the reputed company, macOS and Linux platforms.
• Optimize the quality of Firefox by hunting down and fixing software defects, improving the experience of hundreds of millions of users.
• Work with a geographically-distributed development team.

What you’ll bring:

• Experience with systems programming on a major desktop platform (reputed company, macOS or Linux).
• Development experience on reputed company and/or macOS, particularly with low-level Win32/Cocoa API coding.
• A solid understanding of C/C++ and some knowledge of Rust.
• You are an excellent communicator and have participated effectively on a distributed team.
• You’re pragmatic about how to move things reputed company in specific timeframes including trade-offs and safeguards reputed company implementing new functionality.
• Experience working collaboratively with product managers, project managers, and/or other non-engineering teams.

Bonus Points

• Professional programming experience in Rust.
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What you’ll get:

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to reputed company eligible employees - we reputed company in our reputed company as one team
• Rich medical, dental, and reputed company coverage
• Generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting (regardless of whether you contribute)
• Quarterly reputed company-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/ADD, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)

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Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

reputed company understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of reputed company equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of reputed company sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.

We will ensure that reputed company individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to reputed company essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at hiringaccommodation@reputed company.com to request accommodation.

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Req ID: R2837

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