Engineering Manager, Traffic Event Detections

The role

You will lead multi-disciplinary teams building the Events Detection product using backend services, data pipelines, and AI Agentic workflows. You will drive day-to-day work, foster team growth, and align work with company priorities.

What you will do

• Deliver complex, high-impact projects while providing technical expertise and mentorship
• Operate team day-to-day and be hands-on in project management and sprint planning
• Manage operational best practices for on-call and related responsibilities
• Empathize with internal and external customers delivering features
• Manage and develop the team through hiring, retaining, and mentoring
• Drive company, product, and team objectives
• Work with Product and Engineering teams to develop long-term business strategy
• Establish, track, and iterate on operational metrics
• Determine best engineering practices and promote them
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, and data-driven decisions

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical hands-on engineering experience
• 5+ years of people management experience
• Experience managing remote engineering team(s)
• Deep knowledge and experience of building scalable web services and data pipelines in AWS
• Experience leading cross-functional teams of 5+ people
• Strong written and verbal communication

Benefits

• Private health, dental, and income protection plans
• Family care, maternity and paternity leave policies
• Lifestyle Spending Account
• Mental health support for you and your dependents
• Paid time away
• Company holidays
• Generous absence policies
• Dedicated paid volunteering time

Before you apply

• Interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow

About the company

Mapbox is a real-time location platform that equips organizations with tools to power navigation for people, packages, and vehicles. They build engines that process petabytes of geospatial data to detect and deliver live road updates.