Sr Engineering Manager, Web Apps

Mozilla

21h•$175,000 - $200,000•Remote

About The Position

Thunderbird is seeking a Senior Manager, Web Applications to lead the engineering execution and people management for the team responsible for MZLA’s hosted subscription products. This is a critical role for a growing revenue area, focusing on launching, maintaining, and improving hosted services with a strong emphasis on delivery discipline, ownership, reliable engineering practices, quality, privacy, reliability, and user trust. This is a hands-on technical management position requiring comfort with the codebase, product direction, service reliability, release readiness, and engineering tradeoffs, alongside people leadership and process improvement. The ideal candidate will help create structure, solve problems, support execution, and build stronger systems as the Web Applications team matures.

Requirements

15+ years of overall industry experience, with at least 10 years of engineering leadership experience in software product, hosted services, SaaS, cloud-based applications, communications platforms, or similarly complex technical environments.
5+ years of people management experience in an engineering environment, including coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, career development, and team development.
Experience managing senior technical teams, team budget and resource planning, and partnerships with directors, senior ICs, product stakeholders, infrastructure/SRE teams, contractors, external partners, and cross-functional stakeholders.
Experience translating technical, product, or organizational direction into clear execution plans, ownership models, delivery practices, operating rhythms, and measurable outcomes.
Technical depth sufficient to understand engineering tradeoffs, release risks, codebase quality, architectural implications, service reliability, security/privacy considerations, operational readiness, and engineering practices such as code review, testing, documentation, observability, CI/CD, incident learning, and technical debt management.
Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to create clarity, accountability, and follow-through in small, scaling, ambiguous, or evolving environments.
Demonstrated ability to thoughtfully evaluate and integrate AI-enabled tools into engineering management practices, team workflows, decision-making, and productivity improvements, while setting clear expectations around accuracy, privacy, security, and responsible use.

Nice To Haves

Experience with hosted email, calendaring, scheduling, secure file sharing, communications platforms, or related subscription products.
Experience with identity systems, billing/subscription integrations, customer lifecycle workflows.
Experience working in open-source or maintainer-style engineering environments.
Experience with privacy-preserving product design, data minimization, security reviews, compliance needs, or user-controlled systems.

Responsibilities

Lead day-to-day engineering execution in a hands-on management capacity, ensuring priorities, ownership, timelines, risks, dependencies, and quality expectations are clear.
Manage Web Services engineers and contractors, including coaching, feedback, prioritization, performance support, and team development.
Manage team budget and resource planning, including contractor, vendor, tooling, service, operational expense, and headcount planning inputs.
Translate product direction, technical priorities, and organizational needs into coordinated engineering plans.
Establish team processes, workflows, planning practices, and operating rhythms that improve clarity, accountability, quality, and predictability.
Maintain enough product and architectural context to evaluate tradeoffs, identify risks, and manage engineering work credibly.
Improve engineering practices related to code review, testing, documentation, release readiness, observability, technical debt, and operational readiness.
Coordinate launch and operational readiness across technical and cross-functional partners.
Communicate progress, priorities, risks, and decisions clearly to stakeholders while fostering an engineering culture grounded in accountability, inclusion, technical quality, open-source values, and continuous improvement.