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Staff Software Engineer, Graphics

100% Remote
Full-time
Senior or above
UK, Europe, US
Posted on November 25, 2025New

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Support everything revolving around painting content to the screen in Firefox on Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux desktops as fast and accurately as possible. • Work with Graphics Team welcoming broad experience across different platforms. • Define and drive architectural improvements for rendering in the Gecko Browser engine. • Improve the rendering performance of Gecko browser engine, particularly on high resolution displays. • Write software in C++ and Rust including tests and documentation. • Participate in regular code reviews and maintain quality and security of existing Graphics code. • Engage with internal and external security researchers to ensure code quality. • Investigate and propose solutions and architectural changes to improve performance, reliability, and reduce power usage. • Represent Mozilla in Standards development alongside other industry leaders including Google, Apple, and Microsoft.

📋 Job Requirements

• At least five years of experience as a software engineer. • Proficient in C++ or Rust. • Knowledge and experience with graphics frameworks that drive modern computing including OpenGL ES, WebGL, Metal, WebGPU, Vulkan, DirectX 11/12. • Knowledge of GPU architectures and design. • Strong debugging and optimization skills in multi-threaded code. • Experience with, or interest in learning about, security sandboxing and IPC architectures. • Commitment to Mozilla values including welcoming differences, being relationship-minded, practicing responsible participation, and having grit.

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Experience across multiple platforms including Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux. • Background in browser engine development. • Experience representing companies in standards development processes. • Track record of architectural improvements in rendering systems. • Deep understanding of high resolution display optimization. • Experience working with security researchers on graphics code. • Knowledge of power usage optimization in graphics systems.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Define and drive architectural improvements for rendering in Gecko Browser engine. • Improve rendering performance particularly on high resolution displays. • Write software in C++ and Rust including comprehensive tests and documentation. • Participate in regular code reviews ensuring code quality. • Maintain quality and security of existing Graphics code by engaging with security researchers. • Investigate and propose solutions for performance, reliability, and power usage improvements. • Represent Mozilla in standards development alongside industry leaders. • Debug and optimize multi-threaded graphics code. • Contribute to security sandboxing and IPC architectures.

About Mozilla

😃 What Mozilla offers

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees sharing in 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 including life/AD&D, disability, EAP varying by country. • Reasonable accommodations provided for qualified individuals with disabilities. • Remote work flexibility across multiple countries.

💖 What makes Mozilla unique

Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. Making pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser, with more than 225 million people around the world using products each month. Mozilla is shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security, and more while never losing focus on core mission to make the internet better for people. Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the non-profit 501(c) Mozilla Foundation, meaning no shareholders, only mission. Mozilla values diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge, encouraging applications from all equity-seeking communities.

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