Software Engineer, Release Engineering

About the role

<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: small;"> <div> <p><strong>Why Mozilla?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation. This means we aren’t beholden to any shareholders — only to our mission. Along with thousands of volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozillians design, build and distribute </span><strong>open-source</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>About this team and role:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At Mozilla, our Release Engineering team (RelEng) plays a crucial role in ensuring the seamless and reliable delivery of our world-class software products. As a key part of our engineering infrastructure, RelEng is responsible for the continuous deployment of our products, ensuring they reach our users efficiently and without interruption. For instance, we can reliably ship a security fix to > 200M users across different platforms and > 100 locales in under 24 hours.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">RelEng has an expertise in configuring and optimizing our build and deployment pipeline. In order to provide a faster and more reliable experience for Firefox developers, RelEng is looking for an engineer who can help optimize and maintain the pipeline.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are passionate about release automation, the Release Engineering team at Mozilla is the place for you. Join us and be a part of a team that is making a significant impact on the web and beyond.</span></p> <p><strong>What you’ll do:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Write software that scales - tens of thousands of tasks are run to build, test, and release Firefox every single day</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate with senior+ engineers to improve the developers’ experience, then implement the improvements.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work with a geographically-distributed development team between North America and Europe</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Collaborate with others by requesting and providing code reviews</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Respond to critical service outages (during normal working hours - no on call rotation is required)</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What you’ll bring:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have a Bachelor's degree in computer science (or related programs) or equivalent work experience</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have a minimum of 2 years of experience working in an object-oriented programming (OOP) language (preferably Python)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are passionate about CI/CD pipelines</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have some previous experience on using cloud resources (e.g. on AWS, GCP, or Azure)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight:

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