[Hiring] Engineering Manager, Ads @Mozilla

Role Description

The Ads Engineering organization at Mozilla builds privacy-respecting advertising systems that support Mozilla’s products and business while aligning with our mission and values. Our teams focus on building reliable, scalable backend systems that enable advertising functionality across all Mozilla properties.

As an Engineering Manager on Ads Engineering, you will lead a team of software engineers working on backend services and platforms that support advertising capabilities. You’ll be responsible for:

• Building a healthy, effective team
• Partnering with product and cross-functional stakeholders
• Ensuring your team delivers high-quality software in support of Ads Engineering goals

This role balances people leadership, execution, and collaboration, with a strong emphasis on mentoring engineers, delivering results, and fostering a positive, inclusive team culture.

What you’ll do:

• Mentor, support, and develop a team of software engineers, helping them grow in impact and craft
• Lead your team through the delivery of projects and initiatives where problem definition may evolve as requirements, constraints, and learnings become clearer
• Partner with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to navigate ambiguity, particularly where user data, privacy expectations, or policy considerations shape technical and product decisions
• Ensure the software your team builds is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with Mozilla’s quality, security, and privacy standards
• Create an environment where engineers can do their best work, including healthy team processes, clear communication, and support through uncertainty
• Participate in hiring and onboarding to grow and strengthen the team over time

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2 years of people management experience
• A track record of leading teams that successfully deliver production software
• Strong judgment around prioritization, execution, and balancing short-term delivery with long-term sustainability
• Familiarity with modern software development practices, including planning, issue triage, and delivery workflows
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product managers and partner teams to deliver outcomes
• Experience supporting engineers with varied skill sets, backgrounds, and levels of experience
• Comfort working in a distributed, asynchronous environment
• Experience in digital advertising or advertising platforms, or demonstrated ability to quickly learn privacy-sensitive domains

Requirements

• Commitment to our values:
• Welcoming differences
• Being relationship-minded
• Practicing responsible participation
• Having grit

Benefits

• Generous performance-based bonus plans to all eligible employees - we share in our 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 (life/AD&D, disability, EAP, etc. - varies by country)