Overview

Mozilla’s Data Platform Operations Team is looking for an ambitious Data Operations Engineer. You’ll need solid Linux/UNIX skills, experience with developing and maintaining data pipelines, and experience with standard web application stacks (LAMPy, Node.js, etc). You’ll be developing scripts and applications to support our data infrastructure. You will be expected to provide hands-on technical engineering of our ever-growing server and application environments across multiple global data centers and AWS. Most importantly, you’ll be an integral part of the team handling the infrastructure responsible for Mozilla’s data back-end services.

As a senior data operations engineer at Mozilla, you will…

  • Maintain our core data infrastructure which includes helping to scale our back-end services to handle millions of clients
  • Support, tuning, maintenance, and documentation of our operating environment including builds, code deployment, and troubleshooting
  • Write, maintain, and expand automation scripts, metrics and monitoring tooling, and orchestration recipes
  • Work with Data Engineering teams to design, develop and maintain data pipelines
  • Collaboration with QA, Security, and Engineering for coordinated updates and code releases

Your Professional Profile

  • Have solid scripting knowledge (shell, Python, Lua).
  • Some development background with Python, Scala, or Go highly preferred.
  • Deep understanding of ETL, data modeling, and distributed processing.
  • Working knowledge of database systems (SQL and/or non-relational).
  • Familiarity with maintaining and managing Big Data technologies including Kafka, Spark, Presto, and HBase.
  • Configuration management and orchestration experience. Puppet and ansible experience is a plus.
  • Cloud infrastructure experience (including AWS).
  • Monitoring / metrics experience, including plug-in/check script writing and modification.
  • B.S. in Computer Science would be lovely, but real-world experience is preferred.

Next Steps

If our team sounds like a good fit for you please send us your resume with a cover letter. Tell us about why you’re interested in Mozilla and this position. If you contribute to any open source software, or maintain a blog, Twitter, or similar online presence we’d love to hear about it.

Mozilla is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity throughout our recruiting and hiring process and is dedicated to increasing diversity in our workplace.

About Mozilla

Mozilla is a thriving global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working collaboratively and openly to keep the Internet alive and accessible for all.

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 day. Join our team today and together we’ll make a better Web for tomorrow.

We’re a global community of users, contributors and developers working to keep the power of the Web in people’s hands. The collaborative efforts of Mozillians around the world drive forward the principles and aims of the Mozilla Manifesto.

• More than 1,000 volunteers contribute code to Firefox
• 400,000 people contribute to Mozilla through our project tracking system Bugzilla
• SUMO, Mozilla’s community-powered support site, helps an average of 10,000 Firefox users per week
• Students from more than 600 institutions in 57 countries spread Firefox as Mozilla Campus Representatives

Fast Facts about Mozilla:
• Half a billion people around the world use Firefox
• Firefox is free and open source software, with approximately 40% of its code written by volunteers
• Firefox is available in 89 languages
• More than 50% of global Firefox users use non-English versions
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