Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Development

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About the role

  • Senior Software Engineer designing and building core platform services for Mozilla's AI infrastructure. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient model deployment and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate core platform services and APIs used to deploy and serve production workloads at scale.
  • Own service reliability end-to-end, driving improvements in availability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
  • Lead efforts to optimize backend services for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency across distributed infrastructure.
  • Design and manage Kubernetes-based workloads, including GitOps deployment pipelines, environment configuration, and resource utilization optimization.
  • Own and improve critical parts of the service lifecycle, including packaging, versioning, testing strategies, validation, and deployment automation.
  • Implement and evolve observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) to improve visibility and operational resilience of backend services and pipelines.
  • Partner closely with product, infrastructure, security, and data teams to design scalable platform capabilities that enable new product features.
  • Contribute to technical design discussions, propose architectural improvements, and mentor junior engineers through code reviews and knowledge sharing.
  • Participate in and help improve operational processes, including incident response, on-call rotations, and post-incident reviews.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree with 4–6 years of relevant industry experience, or Master's degree with significant hands-on experience building and operating production systems, or work experience equivalent
  • Strong, modern Python skills, with experience writing clean, maintainable code and working with a fast toolchain (dependency management, linting, formatting, type checks, pre-commit), building both libraries and CLIs that output structured data.
  • Advance experience with database deployment and management, bonus points for familiarity with Postgres
  • Proven experience deploying and operating workloads in cloud environments, including production-grade infrastructure on GCP and GKE (artifact registries, managed caches, networking and internal load balancing, VPC, DNS, and separation of nonprod and prod).
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm, writing charts that deploy across environments with per-environment configuration and progressive feature rollout.
  • Experience with Terraform for provisioning infrastructure across environments, including schema validation and PR-level plan review.
  • Experience designing and running scalable APIs that hold up under load, including health and readiness checks, auth, and clean startup and shutdown.
  • Experience with Grafana or similar tools for metrics, dashboards, and reading application and infrastructure health together during rollouts.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug performance and reliability issues in distributed systems.
  • Clear and effective communication skills, with experience collaborating across engineering, product, and infrastructure teams.
  • On-call experience, including participating in incident response and post-incident reviews.

Benefits

  • 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)

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$104,000 - CA$139,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

CloudDistributed SystemsDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPostgresPythonTerraform

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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