Firefox OS Integration Engineer, Crash Reporting

About this team and role:

The OS Integration team ensures Firefox and other Gecko-based products harmonize well with the host operating system and environment. This includes native crash reporting, OS abstraction layers, sandboxing and hardening. We’re a distributed team with expertise in Windows, macOS, and Linux-based operating systems with this role focusing on macOS.

In this role, you will be a member of the OS Integration team specializing in crash reporting for Firefox. You will help to maintain and evolve client-side crash and error reporting across supported operating systems, enabling other engineers to maintain a high quality of our products.

What you’ll do:

• Develop, test, and ship fixes and new features for Firefox crash reporting, with a focus on creating a high-quality user and developer experience.
• Work in the open source Mozilla codebase touching a variety of technologies including C++, rust and JavaScript.
• Maintain and evolve code that detects and reports crashes. In doing so you will interact with low-level OS primitives.
• You will analyze crash data and come up with insights about it
• Grow your expertise while collaborating with a distributed team and participating in technical discussions, planning, code reviews, and problem solving.
• Break down problems into manageable units, seek early feedback, and document your design choices to foster learning and alignment.

What you’ll bring:

• A degree in Computer Science or in an affine topic or comparable work experience.
• The desire to understand the nitty-gritty details of stack walking and post-mortem analysis of a process.
• Proven fluency in Rust and/or C++, for two years in a professional environment. Knowledge of compiler, debugger or OS development are bonuses.
• Ideally some engineering work examples of low-level programming.
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Written and verbal communication skills with a collaborative mindset.
• Willingness to work effectively in a distributed team environment.
• Commitment to our values:
  • Welcoming differences
  • Being relationship-minded
  • Practicing responsible participation
  • Having grit

What you’ll get:

• 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)