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Senior Software Engineer, Privacy at Mozilla

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C++
A time you used C++: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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Python
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Rust
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SQL
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4+ years of experience
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Education
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The ad says: “<li style="font-weight: 400;">Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related program; or equivalent work experience.</li>”
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Languages: English
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Proven ability to onboard quickly, deliver and improve complex software projec
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Proven track record of independently scoping and landing complex features with
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Excellent written and verbal communication skills. You can validate your progr
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">You have already contributed to the Mozilla mission and the codebase.</
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Experience working within the browser space (Gecko, Chromium, WebKit) or web e
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<li style="font-weight: 400;">Experience or high interest in designing or leveraging ML pipelines to automat
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1.Walk me through the architecture of a system you built. What would you change today?technical
Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
2.How do you make a slow endpoint fast?technical
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
3.How do you test code you are about to ship?technical
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
4.How have you used C++ in production, and what went wrong at least once?technical

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