Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, & vehicles everywhere. More than 3.9 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platforms flexibility, security, & privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs, & APIs to create customized & immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What We Do

The Navigation team develops & operates web services powering virtually all of Mapboxs strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, & logistics. This is a highly multidisciplinary team, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, & mapping. 

Read about Mapbox Navigation on our blog: https://blog.mapbox.com/tagged/navigation

What You'll Do

As an Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing & operating significant areas of our routing services. In this role, you can expect to:

• Solve complex guidance scenarios that dont have good solutions today
• Develop best-in-class guidance experiences that make routing enjoyable, not robotic
• Provide highly customizable guidance solutions for large OEMs as well as very niche customers with unique use cases
• Build the tools others will use to unlock incredible mapping & navigation solutions never seen before

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• Experience engineering modern C++ & Linux server applications in a commercial or open-source development environment, or equivalent performance-critical systems experience with Go, Rust, or the JVM.
• Knowledge of operating systems & distributed systems (e.g., fault-tolerance, consistency, service discovery, etc.)
• A rigorous approach to problem solving, using experiments & data analysis to drive quality of service improvements
• Willingness to go beyond your comfort zone & develop new skills across the full range of our stack
• Located in the Eastern Time Zone

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position & are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems & opportunities.
• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, & innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
• We emphasize an environment of teaching & learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function & the company.
• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team & encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, & sexual orientations to apply.

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $143,000 - $213,325 for most US locations & 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level & actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills & prior relevant experience, potential impact, & scope of role), market demands, & specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.