UI/UX Engineer at Firezone (W22)$100K - $130K • 0.10% - 0.30%
Easiest, most secure way to set up Zero Trust Access for your team
About Firezone
Firezone secures remote access to networks and applications for organizations of all sizes around the world. We’re building a next-generation, open-source network security platform that leverages new tech like WireGuard and eBPF to provide a run-anywhere firewall for the work-anywhere era.
We’re backed by world-class investors such as Y Combinator, 1984 Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Gaingels, Amino Capital, and many notable angel investors.
Perks
- Remote-first work with the option to work locally out of our Mountain View office if you’re in the Bay Area. We attend conferences and hold fun off-sites, so you’ll still get the chance to meet everyone on the team if you work remotely.
- Regular team off-sites (our last one was in Santa Rosa, California).
- Flexible budget for your ideal workspace setup. Whether it’s a custom-built beefy Linux desktop or an Apple-powered mobile workstation — build your dream battlestation to get your work done! Use whatever gear suits you best.
- Comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans.
- Flexible work hours and paid vacation.
- $100/month stipend to support open source.
About the role
Skills: CSS, HTML, React, TypeScript, FigmaWe’re looking for a motivated frontend engineer who will help drive the look & feel for our docs, website, and product. This is a great role for a talented frontend developer looking to build the core UI/UX for a fast-growing, open source security startup.
We use Tailwind CSS to unify the look and feel of our website, docs, and product. The ideal candidate will have experience with Tailwind CSS in order to hit the ground running. If you're not a Tailwind expert, that's ok! We value motivation to learn quickly and craft quality UIs above all else.
Responsibilities include:
- Consistently apply our style guide across all of our brand properties
- Translate Balsamiq Wireframes and Figma design files into Tailwind-powered clean HTML & CSS
- Work with other full-stack engineers to build Phoenix Liveview Components for our main product
- Integrate Tailwind-powered frameworks such as https://flowbite.com into our main docs and website
Here are the key features that make this role unique:
- Design is core to security: Firezone keeps networks secure. Misconfigured security products are a common cause of security breaches, so your ability to craft a usable experience will be critical to why customers choose our product.
- All of your work will be open-source at our main repo: https://github.com/firezone/firezone
- Opportunity to collaborate with other open-source developers from around the world
- Stipend to spend on learning resources (books, e-courses, etc)
Technology
Firezone builds software that companies trust to shuffle packets around quickly and securely. Performance, reliability, and security are key.
Some of the fun, bigger technical challenges we face are:
- Scaling WireGuard & eBPF performance to saturate the fastest network links
- Scaling firewall configuration management to multisite topologies
- Compiling and distributing Erlang applications across many different operating systems and CPU architectures
- Building secure, performant native platform apps that integrate well with enterprise MDM systems
To facilitate the above, Firezone is built primarily in Elixir/Phoenix — we think Erlang and OTP provide the perfect foundation for building a secure, scalable distributed networking product (after all, it powers much of the world’s telecom infrastructure!).
The server application is split into three supervised OTP apps: fz_http for orchestration, fz_vpn for VPN termination, and fz_wall for managing the host firewall. We built it this way to support multi-site topologies (fz_vpn, fz_wall) that can be orchestrated by a central control plane (fz_http).
Some of the low-level kernel interfacing and eBPF compilation will be moving to Rust soon along with a cross-platform core client library that will power the client applications for each platform (Apple, Linux, Windows).
See our architecture diagram:
![Architecture Architecture](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/167144/163403093-a1344c90-5221-4739-9951-d5d46219b543.png)
Interview Process
Hiring Process
We value the ability to learn quickly, take ownership, and ship product features over raw years of experience or company logos on your resume. Our goal is to make a well-informed decision based on your ability to do the work you’ll be expected to do at Firezone without subjecting you to a long drawn-out process. Our process involves:
- Introduction Call - A chance to connect and see if there is interest from both sides, share more about our vision and roadmap, and learn more about your experience.
- Take-home Challenge - We're not fans of live, hours-long coding interviews since they don't resemble how most engineers get work done. Instead, we'll give you a 1-2 hour take-home challenge related to the role. You’ll be solving a problem similar to something you’d face in your day-to-day work.
- Take-home Followup Call - We’ll hop on a call to go through the completed take-home challenge and a few technical Q&A related to the role.
- Final call - If we have any additional questions we’ll schedule a short follow up call.
- Background and reference checks.
- Offer Decision