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Software Engineer, Release Engineering

Posted on 7 September 2026

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Join the Release Engineering team, which handles the continuous deployment of Mozilla’s products so they reach users efficiently and without interruption. • Help ship a security fix to more than 200 million users across different platforms and over 100 locales in under 24 hours. • Help optimise and maintain the build and deployment pipeline to give Firefox developers a faster, more reliable experience. • Write software that scales, since tens of thousands of tasks run to build, test, and release Firefox every day. • Work with a geographically distributed development team across North America and Europe. • Respond to critical service outages during normal working hours, with no on-call rotation required. • Work for a technology company wholly owned by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, accountable to its mission rather than shareholders. • Work fully remote from the UK.

📋 Job Requirements

• Hold a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related programme, or bring equivalent work experience. • Bring a minimum of 2 years working in an object-oriented programming language, preferably Python. • Bring a passion for CI/CD pipelines. • Bring some previous experience using cloud resources on AWS, GCP, or Azure. • Develop comfortably in Windows, macOS, and Linux environments, with shell scripting experience. • Bring experience working on a team distributed across time zones. • Enjoy getting familiar with and improving existing code bases and tools. • Commit to Mozilla’s values of welcoming differences, being relationship-minded, practising responsible participation, and having grit.

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Bring experience with large-scale build and release automation. • Bring experience with task orchestration across tens of thousands of daily jobs. • Bring experience contributing to open-source projects. • Bring experience supporting developer tooling and developer experience work. • Contact [email protected] if you need reasonable accommodations to take part in the application or interview process.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Write software that scales across the tens of thousands of tasks run to build, test, and release Firefox daily. • Collaborate with senior and above engineers to identify improvements to the developer experience, then implement them. • Work with a development team distributed between North America and Europe. • Collaborate with others by requesting and providing code reviews. • Respond to critical service outages during normal working hours.

About Mozilla

😃 What Mozilla offers

• Skip on-call entirely, as no rotation is required for this role. • Earn a generous performance-based bonus as an eligible employee. • Access rich medical, dental, and vision coverage. • Receive generous retirement contributions with 100% immediate vesting, regardless of whether you contribute yourself. • Take quarterly all-company wellness days where everyone pauses together. • Take country-specific holidays plus a day off for your birthday. • Receive a one-time home office stipend. • Spend an annual professional development budget and a quarterly wellbeing stipend. • Take considerable paid parental leave. • Access other benefits including life and AD&D cover, disability, and an EAP, varying by country.

💖 What makes Mozilla unique

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years, making brands such as Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. More than 225 million people use its products each month, and its work spans AI, social media, security and more, without losing focus on its core mission to make the internet better for people. It is wholly owned by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, so it answers to its mission rather than shareholders, and alongside thousands of volunteer contributors it builds and distributes open-source software.

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