Not necessarily the focus of the article, but it’s great to see Mozilla finally hiring more staff to work on the browser’s performance again, amongst other positions:

Join the team!

I’m excited to share that after the performance test engineering team is currently hiring! We have ambitious plans to modernise and unify our performance test frameworks, automate more of our regression sheriffing workflows, increase the accuracy and sensitivity of our regression detection, and support the culture of performance at Mozilla. By growing the team we hope to accelerate these efforts and to ensure every Firefox release performs better than the last.

We’re looking for candidates with 2-5 years software development experience. Whilst not a requirement, these roles would suit individuals with experience or interest in performance, profiling, data analysis, machine learning, TCP/IP, and web technologies. Experience with Python and JavaScript would also be beneficial as these will be used extensively in the role.

If you’re interested in helping us to build the future of performance testing at Mozilla, and to have a direct impact on the performance of Firefox, then please take a look over the following job descriptions:

Software Development Engineer in Test (Performance)
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Performance)

Note that the first role is based in Toronto as we have a number of team members in this location, and currently feel that hiring in this location would provide a better opportunity for the successful candidate. The senior role is remote US and Canada.

You can learn more about the team on our wiki page, and if you’re interested in joining us, you can apply directly from the job descriptions above. If these positions don’t interest you, but you like the idea of working to keep the internet open and accessible to all, take a look over our other open positions.