Staff Software Engineer, Orchestration
Mapbox (View all Jobs)
Helsinki, Finland
Interview Process
1. Conversational interviews 2. Paid onsite project with team.
Programming Languages Mentioned
Golang, JavaScript
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 3.5 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. Whether you’re watching the delivery of your grocery order on Instacart, tracking your personal best mile on Strava, monitoring your gas budget on Metromile, or checking today’s forecast on The Weather Channel, Mapbox is the location and maps within those apps.
What We Do
The Orchestration team is responsible for the tools and processes that go into moving code from commit to production. We ensure that every engineer at Mapbox is able to confidently and safely test, deploy, and release their code with minimal overhead while still allowing teams to customize the process to fit their unique needs. We work across both NA and EU time zones.
What You'll Do
With Orchestration, your focus will be on how we can make shipping features easy for Mapbox Engineers. You will develop and maintain the tools and infrastructure that Mapbox engineers use to test, deploy and release software, as well as work with teams to improve their ability to understand how their systems work and respond to issues more quickly. You will also be responsible to help mentor and guide the team as a technical leader.
- Create, enhance and support internal tools that power 40+ teams at Mapbox
- Lead discovery into new solutions for improving Mapbox's developer experience
- Work directly with developers to understand their needs across mobile, web and native products
- Enhance our CI/CD practices and tooling with a focus on improving developer productivity
- Build automation and tooling to improve our local development experience
- Create tools and dashboards to help developers better understand their costs and performance
- Provide recommendations and support around best practices in CI/CD, including testing, CI tooling, Cloud infrastructure, deploy and release practices and observability
- Stay on top of trends and explore new technologies that could be applied to Mapbox’s Platform
- Participate in our on-call rotation
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
- Experience with using Cloud Native technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, etc) and building on AWS, GCP or Azure
- Focus on the developer experience and how we enable teams to use our tooling
- Familiarity with creating tools for developers
- Understanding on how to mentor and grow fellow team members
- Being a technical leader who can bring a confident, informed opinion to the team
- Experience with Golang and JavaScript is nice-to-have
What We Value
In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
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