Software Development Engineer II, Routing Engine (Rust)

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 [here](https://www.mapbox.com/navigation) ## **What You'll Do** As an Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing and operating significant areas of our routing services. In this role, you can expect to: - Solve complex routing scenarios that don’t have good solutions today - Develop best-in-class routing experiences that make routing enjoyable, not robotic - Provide highly customizable routing 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 - Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our systems remain available to customers 24/7. Team members alternate as the on-call primary responder, which may require immediate response outside normal working hours, including weekends. **What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role** - 5+ years of experience building large scale/high volume low latency backend services - 3+ years of experience engineering Rust/Go based solutions in a commercial or open source environment - AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM) using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines. - Knowledge of operating systems and distributed systems (e.g., fault-tolerance, consistency, service discovery, etc.) - Experience with modern AI development tools and practices ## **Nice to Have Traits for This Role** - Experience with modern C++ - Geospatial or Navigation related experience ## **What We Value** In addition to [our core values](https://www.mapbox.com/about/values/), which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders: - We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and 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, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people. - We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company. - We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply. ## How We Support You - **Hybrid/Remote Options:** Enjoy flexibility to work comfortably from home or periodically from an office where applicable. - **Comprehensive Healthcare:** Private medical coverage for you and your dependents. - **Family-First Support:** Generous maternity and paternity leave policies to support your growing family. - **Fertility & Family Building:** Inclusive fertility support. Grow your family on your terms. - **Lifestyle Spending Account:** Contributions to support your health, wellness, and personal growth. - **Balance & Brainpower:** Mental health support for you and your dependents. - **Rest & Recharge:** Flexible paid time away, company holidays, and generous absence policies. - **Time Off to Give Back:** Dedicated paid volunteering time in addition to your standard PTO. - **Invest & Grow:** Retirement plans with competitive matching. Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $160,650 - $217,350 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. 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