Senior Engineering Manager, Add-Ons Ecosystem

Why Mozilla?

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, and Pocket, a service for keeping up with the best content online. 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. 

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 open-source software that enables people to enjoy the internet on their terms. 

About this team and role:

The Add-ons organization at Mozilla is responsible for managing an ecosystem that spans from software through policy and security, services for software and content delivery, communications and editorial, all while servicing a large community of developers, enterprise companies and end users.  

Within Add-ons, the “AMO” (addons.mozilla.org) team owns our user and developer facing Add-ons marketplace, the Web Extensions team is responsible for Firefox extensions APIs, the Add-ons Operations team is responsible for operations and security of the Add-ons Ecosystem, and Add-on Community Experience Team ensures the experience of developing and using add-ons is as delightful, rewarding, and engaging as possible.

The Senior Engineering Manager leads the Firefox Add-ons organization. We’re looking for a leader that is passionate about building awesome teams, finding innovative solutions to the unique challenges of an ecosystem, shipping quality software and wanting to make an impact by empowering users to shape their experience on the Internet.

What you’ll do: 

• Drive initiatives to improve the Add-ons ecosystem and deliver value to users while ensuring the software your team delivers is high quality, highly available, monitored, and maintainable.
• Communicate your team’s goals, the scope and risks of your projects, and own the delivery of initiatives on clear timelines.
• Identify, build and iterate on engineering processes that support a high performing team. 
• Ensure developers are properly supported and empowered throughout the developer lifecycle.
• Create an inclusive …