Senior Software Engineer (Python/Django)

Location: Remote Sweden

Salary: 512,925–683,900 SEK annually

Company

hirify.global is a non-profit-backed technology company building open-source products such as Firefox to support a more open and privacy-focused internet.

What you will do

• Deliver major features and architectural improvements across the Firefox Add-ons ecosystem, including automated moderation pipelines, Reviewer tools, and DevHub.
• Build and operate Python/Django, MySQL, React/TypeScript, and asynchronous processing systems.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code practices, deployment workflows, observability, monitoring, and incident response.
• Create internal developer platforms and tools that help engineering teams safely develop, deploy, and operate production services.
• Establish engineering standards covering testing, production readiness, recoverability, documentation, runbooks, code review, and on-call practices.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers, product managers, QA, reviewers, developer support, and community contributors.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining production applications with Python and Django.
• Experience operating reliable production systems and improving CI/CD, declarative pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and deployment workflows.
• Strong understanding of observability, including metrics, logging, tracing, service-level objectives, and actionable alerting.
• Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases across frontend, backend, asynchronous jobs, data stores, and infrastructure.
• Experience debugging complex production issues, creating technical documentation, and improving engineering and operational practices.
• Must be based in Sweden for this remote role.

Nice to have

• Experience with Google Cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, or policy-as-code.
• Experience with SLOs, error-budget practices, chaos engineering, disaster recovery testing, or production readiness reviews.
• Experience with trust and safety, automated moderation, abuse prevention, or other adversarial systems.
• Open-source contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed collaboration centered on openness, knowledge sharing, mentoring, and responsible participation.
• Performance-based bonus plan for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, vision, retirement, disability, and employee assistance benefits, varying by country.
• Country-specific holidays, birthday leave, quarterly wellness days, and a well-being stipend.
• Home office stipend, professional development budget, and paid parental leave.