Remote
Canada
C$155K–C$190K CAD
💻Engineering
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Thunderbird is one of the world’s most trusted open-source email applications, empowering more than 20 million people globally. At Thunderbird, we build privacy-respecting communication and productivity tools that help people manage their digital lives while staying in control of their data.
We are open source by design. Our products are developed transparently and in collaboration with a global community of contributors, and that same spirit shapes how we work: collaboratively, inclusively, and with a shared commitment to putting users first.
Our small but growing distributed team includes more than 65 people across seven countries. As Thunderbird evolves beyond a single desktop application, we are expanding across desktop, mobile, paid services, AI offerings, and enterprise-facing work to build independent, privacy-respecting alternatives to big tech ecosystems.
Our revenue model combines user donations, which help keep Thunderbird’s applications freely available, with paid services that cover the costs of hosted offerings while supporting long-term sustainability and continued innovation.
A note about Thunderbird and Mozilla: Thunderbird Technologies Corporation is the nonprofit-owned company behind Thunderbird email and a growing portfolio of products. While part of the Mozilla family, Thunderbird is a separate entity from Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation with its own compensation programs, benefits, and employment policies.
To learn more, visit www.thunderbird.net and www.thunderbolt.io
Thunderbird is expanding beyond email with Thunderbolt, an open-source AI client designed for organizations that need more control over their data, infrastructure, and model choices.
We’re looking for a Staff Full-Stack Product Engineer: a full-stack engineer who ships production code and works directly with the partners and enterprise customers adopting Thunderbolt. You’ll spend most of your time in the codebase, building the features, integrations, and customizations that real deployments need. The rest of your time goes to working alongside technical partners to get those deployments running and keep them healthy.
Thunderbolt is delivered largely through technical partners and systems integrators who own the day-to-day customer relationship. You’ll be the engineer behind them. You’ll understand how a customer’s environment actually works, turn that understanding into working software, and fix the hard problems that need someone who knows the code.
In your first few months, you’ll help land Thunderbolt’s first enterprise deployments. That means shipping the customizations those customers need, getting partner-hosted deployments stable, and fixing the issues that only show up in real environments.
Over time, success means each new deployment takes less custom work than the last. You’ll have turned one-off requests into reusable product capabilities, and partners will be able to handle routine issues without pulling in engineering.
You’ll work with our passionate staff and open-source community members from all over the globe to support the mission and objectives of Thunderbird Technologies Corporation. In this role, you’ll also collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, enterprise-facing teams, technical partners, contractors, and external contributors working on Thunderbolt.
This is a remote, full-time position. Many of Thunderbolt’s customers and partners are based in Europe, so some regular overlap with European business hours is expected. Strong communication and documentation skills are essential for effective collaboration across time zones and disciplines.
We benchmark our base salaries to local markets and target the 60th percentile of the peer market. The salary ranges for this role are:
We may consider candidates with strong skills but less than the required experience. Title, level and compensation will be determined based on qualifications and experience.
In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your whole self.
Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the country location(s) specified in the posting. We are unable to consider applicants outside of these markets at this time. And, we do not provide visa sponsorship.
Please apply directly through our career page. We carefully review every cover letter and screening question, so take the time to answer each fully. We value authentic, thoughtful responses that reflect your own experience and perspective. It is fine to use AI tools to polish your writing, but your answers should be your own. Candidates who submit generic or unoriginal AI-generated responses may be disqualified from further consideration.
Thunderbird believes in the value of diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge, and knows diversity, equity and inclusion are crucial to and enrich the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race (including hairstyle and texture), religion (including religious grooming and dress practices), gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. Thunderbird will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.
We will ensure that qualified individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, as appropriate. Please contact us at hiringaccommodations@thunderbird.net to request accommodation.
CAD 155,000 - 185,000
Annually
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Mental Health Benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Wellness Programs
Gender Affirming Care
401(k) / Retirement Plan
Performance Bonus
Pay Transparency
Paid Holidays
PTO / Vacation
Sick Days
Company Shutdown Days
Internet Stipend
Home Office Stipend
Company Equipment
Company Offsites / Retreats
Parental Leave
Learning & Development Budget
Employee Referral Bonus
Employee Resource Groups
No. When Mozilla reopened its offices in April 2022, nobody was required to come back. For people who want a place to work, its locations page lists offices or coworking spaces in San Francisco, San Mateo, Berlin, Toronto, New York City, Paris, London and Tulsa.
Mozilla Corporation is a private company, so compensation is not tied to stock options or equity plans. Instead, it offers performance-based bonus plans to all regular employees and makes a 401(k) or RRSP contribution whether or not you contribute yourself, with 100% vesting. Most of its job postings publish hiring ranges broken out by geographic tier.
Not necessarily. Mozilla states its 100% coverage of medical, dental and vision premiums, its 26 weeks of paid parental leave for childbearing parents and 12 weeks for non-childbearing parents, and its 12 paid holidays for employees based in the U.S. and Canada, and its benefits page notes that global benefits vary by location. The quarterly wellness days are described as all-company. Candidates based elsewhere should ask about the local package during the hiring process.
No. Thunderbird roles are with MZLA Technologies, which its own postings describe as separate from Mozilla Corporation, with its own compensation programs, benefits and employment policies. The same careers board can also carry roles for other parts of the Mozilla family, such as the Mozilla Foundation, so check the employing entity on each posting before assuming the pay and benefits on this profile apply.
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