Senior Rust Engineer, Crash Analysis

The Company

A lot of companies say they’re “mission-driven”(e)Our unique corporate structure guarantees that every decision we make upholds our mission: to make sure the internet stays available, safe, and welcoming to everyone(e)Beholden to neither shareholders nor investors, Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation.

Along with 20,000+ volunteer contributors and collaborators all over the world, Mozilla Corporation’s staff designs, builds, and distributes software that allows people to enjoy the internet on their own terms(e)Our flagship product — the Firefox browser — has expanded into a family of products that protects users and alerts them of risks.

The Opportunity

The OS integration team is a cross-disciplinary team in charge of improving and maintaining Firefox on its various supported operating systems(e)We make sure it is a first-class citizen that integrates well with the desktop and supports new features offered by the operating system.

Firefox is a complex cross-platform application, and we deal with the operating system specifics(e)We work on things like crash reporting, interactions with third party software, sandboxing and hardening techniques, and investigate crashes(e)We develop close to the machine on low-level topics such as browser performance, security, Inter Process Communication (IPC), memory allocators, and power usage.

What You'll Get To Do

• Contribute to our crash reporting and analysis tools and collaborate with the larger Rust ecosystem to coordinate the development of open source crash reporting tooling.
• Further develop our open source tooling for ensuring the supply-chain security of vendored Rust crates(e)Sync up with other Rust users in the industry to develop collaborative use cases.
• Assist our backend teams to process, analyze and visualize the crash information you have developed.
• Track upstream development of Rust and LLVM and monitor performance and compatibility with our codebase(e)Investigate regressions and cooperate with upstream to contribute improvements.
• Collaborate with other teams by providing code review and technical direction.
• Work with a geographically-distributed development team.

What You Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• A deep understanding of Rust, knowledge of modern C/C++ and industry experience in one of those languages.
• Experience with executable and library debugging data formats, and related tools.
• Experience with systems programming on multiple operating systems, particularly Windows, Linux, macOS or Android. 
• You are an excellent communicator and have participated effectively on a distributed team.
• You’re pragmatic about how to move things forward in specific timeframes including trade-offs and safeguards when implementing new functionality.

Bonus points for

• Experience with writing excellent documentation to ensure our tooling is valuable to the entire Rust community!
• Curiosity about learning more about frontend and backend development to assist in the deployment of your improvements.

About Mozilla 

Mozilla exists to build the Internet as a public resource accessible to all because we believe that open and free is better than closed and controlled(e)When you work at Mozilla, you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of Web users everywhere(e)And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day(e)Join us to work on the Web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.

Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Mozilla 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 all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and expressions.

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

We are an equal opportunity employer(e)We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws.  Mozilla will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.

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