Senior Engineering Manager, Maps

Mapbox

1d • $238,000 - $322,000 • Remote

About The Position

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 Maps teams build and maintain the applications and infrastructure responsible for creating and distributing Mapbox maps. Thousands of customers rely on our services to seamlessly handle billions of requests every day, scale in real-time to global events, and enable designers, developers, and analysts to make and share maps we’ve never dreamed of. Delivering maps means delivering a model of the world that’s changing all the time and needs to automatically support the world’s edge cases – writing systems, fonts, local regulations, and global boundary disputes.
What You’ll Do
As the Senior Engineering Manager for Maps, you will be responsible for leading all the backend services within the Maps division, overseeing product development, strategy, team management, and driving profitability. Maps is the leading solution for map visualization on mobile and automotive today, customers like Strava, BMW, Tableau, and the Weather Company rely on Maps for their to engage consumers and drive business efficiency. You will play a vital role in shaping the future of location-based services and transforming the way people navigate and understand the world.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development leadership experience.
• Conceptualized and delivered B2B2C or consumer-facing products.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to establish a realistic yet ambitious product roadmap and effectively communicate it to the market and across the organization.
• Experience in a high-accountability environment, with the ability to build, operationalize, and scale technically distributed organizations (engineering, product, data scientists, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to drive go-to-market strategies that have resulted in successful product adoption and revenue generation.
• Ability to think strategically to grow the Maps business.

Nice To Haves

• Architect and deliver scalable, reliable solutions on AWS, applying deep knowledge of cloud-native services to balance performance, resilience, and operational simplicity.
• Drive infrastructure cost efficiency as a first-class engineering concern, proactively optimizing cloud spend through thoughtful architecture, right-sizing, automation, and disciplined trade-off decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction, vision, and roadmap for the Maps engineering teams, aligning it with the company's overall goals and objectives.
• Lead an organization of engineers, fostering innovation, collaboration, and excellence in engineering practices.
• Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of Maps APIs, ensuring they meet customer requirements, industry standards, and leveraging user feedback and market insights for refinement.
• Collaborate with external engineering leaders to drive technical excellence and cultivate strategic partnerships to expand Mapbox's presence, enabling seamless integration of mapping solutions and identifying new business opportunities for strategic growth.
• Partner with Product and Sales team across the company to align roadmap, product launches, and customer deliverables

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed