Senior Software Engineer, Firefox Security

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• Advance Firefox's security architecture and cryptography stack: Contribute to improvements in Firefox's core security systems, with a focus on cryptographic protocols, WebPKI, and security-sensitive web APIs. Help implement and maintain security features that support the evolution of public key infrastructure on the web.
• Design and implement web platform security features: Develop and ship web platform features in collaboration with teammates and the broader web community. Contribute to standards-based, secure, and interoperable implementations across Firefox.
• Improve browser reliability, performance, and resource efficiency: Investigate and resolve issues impacting stability, correctness, and performance. Analyze and improve memory usage and efficiency within a complex, multi-threaded browser environment.
• Collaborate on security initiatives: Partner with engineers across teams to identify, prioritize, and address security issues. Participate in debugging, root cause analysis, and implementation of effective long-term solutions.
• Contribute to technical design and planning: Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and project planning for security-related initiatives. Help evaluate tradeoffs and contribute to engineering decisions within your area of work.
• Strong software engineering and security fundamentals: Experience in software engineering, with proficiency in C/C++ and a solid understanding of security principles, including cryptographic protocols and implementations.
• Experience building and maintaining complex software systems: Ability to contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of software in large-scale or security-sensitive environments.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills: Expertise in diagnosing and resolving issues in multi-threaded, cross-platform native applications, including performance and memory-related challenges.
• Collaborative and effective communicator: Ability to work effectively with distributed teams, communicate technical concepts clearly, and collaborate constructively to solve problems.
• Growth mindset and willingness to learn: Demonstrated curiosity and desire to deepen expertise in browser security, cryptography, and systems programming while continuously improving engineering skills.
• Web platform and modern systems experience: Familiarity with web technologies and interest or experience in Rust. Comfortable working within large, complex, multi-language codebases.
• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible 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)