Contract Staff Software Engineer – WebCompat & Bug Triage
Mozilla · Engineering · Lead · 1mo ago
Open to candidates living in Canada, Germany, United Kingdom.
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Open to candidates living in Canada, Germany, United Kingdom.
“Remote Canada; Remote Germany; Remote UK”
- Async-first
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As a Contract Staff Software Engineer on the Bug Burndown initiative, you will reduce Firefox's WebCompat backlog by finishing or verifying diagnoses on a long tail of site-breakage bugs. You will write WebCompat interventions, triage reports, and land simple fixes often accelerated by AI tooling.
What you'll do
- Finish diagnosing or verify the diagnosis of long-tail WebCompat bugs
- Write WebCompat interventions where appropriate
- Write simple fixes (AI-assisted) and land them
- Reproduce and triage incoming site-breakage reports
What you bring
- Solid web development skills across HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Comfort debugging real-world site breakage
- Fluent with browser devtools and cross-browser diagnosis
- Comfortable using AI tooling to speed up diagnosis and fixes
About Mozilla
Mozilla is an open-source and mission-driven organization dedicated to keeping the internet open, accessible, and safe for everyone.
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