As a Staff Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing and operating significant areas of our routing services. In this role, you can expect to
Design and implement scalable services for our API and routing engine tiers, following best practices for deployment, resilience, and observability
Design and improve services that power the data consumption and storage of the routing data
Drive the design, development, and testing of Mapbox tools
Shape internal tools and automations to make the whole engineering life easier and fun
Drive design and development of services quality metrics and analytics
Run and design experiments to evaluate the quality, reliability, and capacity requirements of our user-facing navigation products
Participate in end-to-end feature implementation within the larger navigation team; review code and design documents, shepherd feature releases, and participate in an on-call rotation
Work with product owners, sales engineering, and management to drive future product direction
Navigation API services interact with many internal systems at Mapbox, making this a high-visibility team with great opportunities to collaborate across the company
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
5+ years of experience in engineering web services in either Rust or Typescript (Node.js)
Experience building highly-available API services within container-based environments (e.g., Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, etc. on AWS)
Proficiency in implementing monitoring instrumentation, triaging incidents, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement
Knowledge of operating systems and distributed systems (e.g., fault-tolerance, consistency, service discovery, etc.)
Proven ability to design long-term technical strategies that balance immediate product delivery with the reduction of systemic technical debt across multiple departments
Extensive experience driving high-visibility initiatives that improve engineering standards and operational excellence for the cross-functional teams
Strong English verbal and written communication skills (B2 level minimum). Mapbox has offices across the globe. You should communicate about complex ideas concisely to an audience worldwide
Experience or interest in solving geo-spatial problems