Engineering Manager, Developer Tools
On any given day, millions of people interact with Mapbox’s global API infrastructure, while behind the scenes, hundreds of Mapbox developers continually deploy code, process petabytes of data, and improve the durability and efficiency of our product. Powering this engine is our Developer Tools team: a group of developers who build and operate a first-class suite of devops tools, run our self-serve deployment pipeline, provision a shared computing layer for the company, and advise Mapbox developers on optimizing cost, scale, and fault-tolerance on AWS. As Mapbox grows, the Developer Tools team serves as the backbone of scaling our self-service and high-quality development on AWS. The team is a key player in helping Mapbox developers deliver an operationally excellent, high-availability product to our customers.
The team's scope of work includes tooling and systems for continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD), benchmarking, observability, incident response, database replication, cost monitoring, and more.
- Check out some of our recent re:Invent talks about switching our infrastructure to ECS and how we monitor cost on AWS
- Many components of our platform are open-source, such as our framework for distributed data processing on ECS, the core of our deploy pipeline, and some friendly CloudFormation helpers!
What you’ll do
Mapbox is looking for a highly technical manager to lead and mentor some of the best developers in the business. You will be responsible for Mapbox’s cloud infrastructure and devops toolkit, including but not limited to: product vision, roadmap definition, feature development, and operational excellence.
In this role, you will continue to grow your technical leadership while you:
- Provide strategic direction and innovation in the design and implementation of the Developer Tools team’s product suite
- Manage and develop the team through hiring, mentoring, retaining, and continually building the team’s capabilities
- Drive company, product, and team objectives, carrying your team along in the decision-making
- Empathize with internal customers of the platform and ship features to address their needs
- Determine best engineering practices and promote them within the team and across Mapbox
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
- Proven ability to design and develop sophisticated, innovative, efficient, and durable infrastructure on AWS
- Expertise in designing and managing highly-available, distributed systems at scale and through rapid growth
- Track record of building self-service and high-quality tools for developers with a customer-driven mindset
- Ability to lead and inspire in a hands-on fashion
- Previous experience building and leading a high-performing team that delivered high-impact and high-value work
- Ability to take on an ownership role for the product, and be able to ramp up quickly and operate independently
- Experience mentoring individuals from underrepresented backgrounds into leadership
- Experience facilitating work in ways that counteract unconscious bias
- Commitment to recruiting a diverse engineering team
- Experience managing distributed teams that span timezones
What We Value
In addition to our core 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.
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