Software Development Engineer III, Routing Cost

The Navigation team at Mapbox develops and operates web services powering virtually all of Mapbox’s strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics verticals. We are a highly multidisciplinary organization, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.

Responsibilities

Lead the engineering team(s) to execute end-to-end feature implementation within the larger navigation organization (~80 engineers); Design and implement scalable services for our API and routing engine tiers, following best practices for deployment, resilience, and observability; Run and design experiments to evaluate the quality, reliability, and capacity requirements of our user-facing navigation products; Work with product owners, sales engineering, and management to drive future product direction; Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our systems remain available to customers 24/7

Requirements

8-10+ years of engineering experience: Extensive hands-on experience showcasing expertise and a strong track record in the field; Technical knowledge: Extensive experience coding in a variety of languages such as C++, Python, and/or Rust. Deep knowledge of different data structures and algorithms, design patterns, memory management, multithreading, and performance optimization for high-efficiency applications; Cloud proficiency: Extensive experience with cloud database services, including AWS RDS, Google Cloud Spanner, and Azure SQL, as well as deploying and managing databases in cloud environments; Operational excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement in your organization. Strong passion for clean code and robust architecture, with a drive to elevate engineering practices and design standards across the team; Ownership & execution: Own the technical vision, lead the strategy and guide the team to execute towards building the future of our routing cost engine; Customer focus: You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf; Growth mindset: Have the humility to accept mistakes, learn and grow from them; Mentorship: Experience mentoring and leading engineering teams developing skill sets and career growth; Strong written and vocal communication skills: You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a wide audience. You are able to lead and resolve org-wide technical discussions and are able to collaborate and include input from cross-functional teams (security, devops, data, compliance and product); Data informed mindset: You believe in the value of data informed decision making and strive to measure things that are not straight forward but essential. You also have the right instincts to make speedy decisions in the absence of perfect & comprehensive data

Benefits

Supportive health care; Parental leave; Flexibility for the things that come up in life; Innovating on how we think about supporting our people