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Contract Staff Software Engineer - (Firefox) C++,Storage Encryption

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Senior level
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Hiring Remotely in UK
Senior level
Implement and ship Storage Encryption Everywhere in Firefox/Gecko, including schema migrations, encrypted data storage, integration and platform testing. Collaborate through code review, resolve specification questions, and shepherd the feature across Nightly, Beta, and Release. Diagnose and fix correctness, performance, and regression issues in a multithreaded browser-engine codebase while contributing openly through public bugs and upstream landing.
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The role

You will help the Firefox DOM LWS team to implement tasks for Storage Encryption everywhere, helping to drive the in-progress project through to completion .

Responsibilities
  • Contributing to delivering Storage Encryption Everywhere in Gecko, which may include tasks such as migrating data between schemas, implementing data storage in PBM and integration testing.
  • Write and pass Web Platform Tests, and add Gecko tests as needed.
  • Work through code review with the relevant Gecko module owners and iterate to landing.
  • Surface and help resolve any specification questions the implementation raises.
  • Shepherd the feature through Nightly, Beta, and Release. Fix correctness, performance issues and regressions.
Definition of done

Ship Storage Encryption Everywhere to release channel. Fix triaged and prioritized issues.

Required qualifications
  • Strong C++.
  • Substantial experience in a browser-engine codebase, ideally Firefox/Gecko.
  • Substantial experience in databases.
  • Familiarity with web standards and Web Platform Tests.
  • Strong debugging and optimization in a multithreaded codebase.
  • Comfort working in the open: public bugs, code review, and upstream landing.
Preferred
  • Prior contributions to Gecko or another major browser engine.
  • Familiarity with the relevant standards body and specification process.

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