Software Development Engineer II, Maps API

The Maps API team at Mapbox is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to build and maintain applications and infrastructure for creating and distributing Mapbox maps. This role involves developing complex mapping and navigation software for various platforms, collaborating on tasks, ensuring timely delivery, designing scalable systems, promoting operational excellence, reducing technical debt, and fostering a collaborative culture. The engineer will work with high-traffic read APIs and distributed ETL pipelines.

Must Have

• Collaborate with your team to identify and scope out well-defined tasks.
• Execute on the scope and be accountable for delivering on time with quality.
• Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Mapbox’s customer base.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and code, writing documentation, and being on-call.
• Reduce technical debt, share your knowledge, and invest in your teammates’ health and happiness.
• Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions.
• 5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services.
• Proficiency in Python, NodeJs, TypeScript (backend), AWS (CDK/ECS/Step Functions/Lambda/S3).
• Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub.
• Ability to engage, learn and contribute quickly to the initiatives.
• Able to perform independently all the development tasks, based on designs and specs.
• Self-starter who is communication and outcomes-oriented.
• An empirical analytical approach: develop strong hypotheses, conduct spikes, and clearly communicate findings.
• A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing and both written and verbal discussion.
• A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
• High quality mindset: write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production.

Good to Have

• Experience and knowledge within the mapping domain.
• Experience with Amazon RDS.
• Experience with C++.
• Experience with various security standards and associated technical knowledge.

What We Do

The Maps API team builds and maintains 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.

Our team maintains the highest-traffic read APIs at Mapbox and the distributed ETL pipelines used by internal and external customers to turn data into maps. We’re building new ways for people to visualize location data.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Software Development Engineer on the Maps API team, you'll play a key role in developing software for complex mapping and navigation software for cars, web, and mobile devices.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Collaborate with your team to identify and scope out well-defined tasks
• Execute on the scope and be accountable for delivering on time with quality
• Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Mapbox’s customer base
• Promote a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and code, writing documentation, and being on-call to support the health of our services
• Reduce technical debt, share your knowledge, and invest in your teammates’ health and happiness, while optimizing application performance and accelerating feature velocity
• Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• 5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services
• Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, NodeJs, TypeScript (backend), AWS (CDK/ECS/Step Functions/Lambda/S3)
• Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub
• Ability to engage, learn and contribute quickly to the initiatives
• Able to perform independently all the development tasks, based on designs and specs.
• Self-starter who is communication and outcomes-oriented
• An empirical analytical approach. You develop strong hypotheses, conduct spikes, and clearly communicate your findings
• A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing and both written and verbal discussion
• A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
• High quality mindset -- write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production

Nice to Have Traits for This Role

• Experience and knowledge within the mapping domain
• Experience with Amazon RDS
• Experience with C++
• Experience with various security standards and associated technical knowledge

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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We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.

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