Senior Routing Engine Engineer — Scalable Routing

Mapbox; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 161,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Mapbox in Washington, D.C. is seeking an Engineer to design, develop and operate substantial parts of our routing services. You will work on challenging systems that power real-time navigation for consumer, automotive, and logistics use cases.

You will contribute to scalable backend platforms, build customizable routing experiences, and develop tooling to unlock advanced mapping capabilities. The role emphasizes low-latency services, distributed systems reasoning, and collaboration across

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building large scale/high-volume low-latency backend services.
• 3+ years engineering Rust/Go based solutions in a commercial or open source environment.
• AWS cloud infra (EC2/S3/RDS/Lambda/VPC/IAM) with IaC and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of operating systems and distributed systems (fault-tolerance, consistency, service discovery).
• Experience with modern AI development tools and practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and operate routing services at scale.
• Create customizable routing solutions for OEMs and niche use cases.
• Build tools to enable mapping and navigation innovations.
• Collaborate with teams to deliver high-performance backend services.

Skills

Backend engineering

Rust/Go

AWS Cloud

Distributed systems

AI development tools

Tools

AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM)

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Mapbox in Washington, D.C. is seeking an Engineer to design, develop and operate substantial parts of our routing services. You will work on challenging systems that power real-time navigation for consumer, automotive, and logistics use cases.

You will contribute to scalable backend platforms, build customizable routing experiences, and develop tooling to unlock advanced mapping capabilities. The role emphasizes low-latency services, distributed systems reasoning, and collaboration across