Firefox Networking Engineering Student Worker

Hiring Ranges:

Germany Locations: €2800 EUR per hour.

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The Opportunity

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. 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 everyone.

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 60000 + 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.

The Gecko networking team is looking for skilled developers to work on a first-class networking stack and improve web experiences for millions of Firefox users. The team is working on the core of the browser that moves the web. The fundamental network protocols and features like HTTP QUIC caching and DNS are our responsibility. We strive to provide a performant and secure browsing experience for the users. Furthermore we work on advanced web platform networking API like Fetch and WebTransport. We improve our existing implementations and together with the broader community we advance the web through the evolution of relevant standards.

Mozilla isn’t just a great place to work. It’s an experience you’ll carry with you throughout your career! As part of our internship program you’ll have the opportunity to be mentored one-on-one by somebody brilliant to impact the projects you’ll collaborate on and to never be bored. Ever! From the passionate people you’ll learn from to the chances you’ll have to make the Web a better place your time with Mozilla will be unlike any other.

Below is a small snapshot of the work we do to give you an idea about some of the big things you could do at Mozilla.

About The Team and Role

We strive to provide a performant and secure browsing experience for users and stable/easy to use Networking API's to our developers. We improve our existing implementations and together with the broader community we advance the web through the evolution of relevant standards.

What You’ll Get To Do

• Improve Firefox’s web browsing experience with a particular focus on the networking stack and network related API e.g. Fetch WebTransport etc.

• Design and implement new web platform features in collaboration with the web community.

• Debug and fix problems in our multi-threaded codebase.

• Debug platform-specific networking issues.

• Improve Firefox’s stability and correctness.

What You Bring

• Experience with programming in C/C++ and you’re familiar with the concept of memory safety and practices for secure software development.

• You speak English fluently and enjoy conducting software engineering work in the open.

• Previous experience with networking is a bonus!

• You are enrolled in a university in Germany and are willing to occasionally visit our Office in Berlin

• Commitment to our values:

  • Welcoming differences

  • Being relationship-minded

  • Practicing responsible participation

  • Having grit

About Mozilla

When you work at Mozilla you give yourself a chance to make a difference in the lives of web users everywhere. And you give us a chance to make a difference in your life every single day. Join us to work on the web as the platform and help create more opportunity and innovation for everyone online.  We’re not a normal tech company. The things we create prioritize people and their privacy over profits. We exist to make the internet a healthier  happier place for everyone.

Commitment To Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Mozilla believes in the value of diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge and knows diversity equity and inclusion 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 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. Please contact us at [email protected] to request accommodation.

We are an equal opportunity employer. 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.