Senior Software Engineer, Privacy in Nederland

Responsibilities

• Implement privacy-improving, anti-tracking, and threat-intelligence protections in Firefox to mitigate tracking and phishing.
• Implement architectural improvements in Gecko, the browser engine underlying Firefox.
• Build performant, low-latency, and maintainable C++, JavaScript, and Rust software.
• Independently scope, deliver, and improve complex features within tight release windows.
• Work asynchronously with a geographically distributed team primarily across Europe and US-East.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related program, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 4 years of experience programming in C++ and Rust.
• Strong background in memory safety, multithreaded system architecture, or raw data stream manipulation.
• Ability to onboard quickly and deliver and improve complex software projects.
• Proven ability to independently scope and land complex features within tight release windows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including clearly validating and communicating progress and decisions.
• Bonus qualifications include Mozilla or browser-codebase contributions, experience with Gecko, Chromium, WebKit, or web-engine runtime abstractions, ML pipeline experience, web architecture and privacy/security-model knowledge, statistical modeling, Python, and SQL.

Benefits

• Generous performance-based bonus plans for eligible employees.
• Retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting.
• Quarterly company-wide wellness days, country-specific holidays, and a birthday day off.
• One-time home office stipend.
• Annual professional development budget.
• Quarterly well-being stipend.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee referral bonus program and other country-dependent benefits including life/AD&D, disability, and EAP coverage.
• Remote role based in the Netherlands.