Mapbox
Technology
SoftwareDevelopmentEngineerII,Guidance
Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Mid candidates.
“Software Development Engineer II, Guidance at Mapbox. Skills: Backend services, AWS, Distributed systems. Design Guidance services. Develop Guidance services”
Industry & Context.
Rigorous approach to problem solving; Experiments; Data analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services, Experience engineering modern C++ or Rust, Experience engineering Linux server applications, Experience in a commercial development environment, Experience in an open-source development environment, Builds and maintains AWS cloud infrastructure, Uses infrastructure-as-code, Uses CI/CD pipelines, Knowledge of operating systems, Knowledge of distributed systems, Rigorous approach to problem solving, Uses experiments to drive quality, Uses data analysis to drive quality, Willingness to develop new skills
Nice to Have
AI integration in engineering workflow
What You'll Do.
Design Guidance services
Develop Guidance services
Operate Guidance services
Solve complex guidance scenarios
Develop best-in-class guidance experiences
Provide highly customizable guidance solutions
Build tools for mapping solutions
Build tools for navigation solutions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Multidisciplinary team
Full Job Description
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, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers. What We Do The Navigation team develops and operates web services powering virtually all of Mapbox’s strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics. This is a highly multidisciplinary team, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping. Read about Mapbox Navigation on our blog: https://blog.mapbox.com/tagged/navigation As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making. Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow. WHAT YOU'LL DO As an Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing and operating significant areas of our Guidance services. In this role, you can expect to: - Solve complex guidance scenarios that don’t have good solutions today - Develop best-in-class guidance experiences that make guidance 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 and navigation solutions never seen before. WHAT WE BELIEVE ARE IMPORTANT TRAITS FOR THIS ROLE - 5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services - Experience engineering modern C++ or Rust and Linux server applications in a commercial or open-source development environment -
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