Firefox Security Student Worker
About the role
Why Mozilla?
Mozilla Corporation is the non-profit-backed technology company that has shaped the internet for the better over the last 25 years. We make pioneering brands like Firefox, the privacy-minded web browser. Now, with more than 225 million people around the world using our products each month, we’re shaping the next 25 years of technology and helping to reclaim an internet built for people, not companies. Our work focuses on diverse areas including AI, social media, security and more. And we’re doing this while never losing our focus on our core mission – to make the internet better for people.
About this team and role
The Firefox Application Security Team sits at the center of Firefox, collaborating with the whole organization through fundamental security projects that range from architecture hardening, and security research to web security. Our team applies foundational platform improvements as well as automation to scale our work such that it serves all of Firefox and hundreds of millions users worldwide.
What you’ll do
- Learn how our team secures the web and help improve the browsing experience for everyone on the web
- Get support from your manager and your assigned mentor
- Learn and partake in regular team processes that help secure a mature product
- Help investigate security issues with guidance and write test cases using HTML and JavaScript
- Improve existing team processes using Python or expand web security features in Firefox using C++
- Get the chance to learn how to work with the wider open source community
- Optionally, propose and drive your own projects
What you’ll bring
- You are enrolled in a university in Germany and are willing to occasionally visit our office in Berlin a few times per year
- You do not need prior security experience, but you should bring either web development, Python, or systems programming experience, and enjoy careful technical investigation.
- You are comfortable communicating in English in writing and during meetings
Bonus points for
- Participation in student tech communities or experience in documentation, teaching, or mentoring
- Experience with C/C++ and familiarity with the concept of memory safety
- Contributions to open source projects or other group projects
- Understanding of web security concepts