Software Development Engineer II, Maps API

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. As a Software Development Engineer II on the Maps API team, you will be responsible for balancing rapid development of new mapping tools against the reliability of services as they scale into new request volumes and markets.

Responsibilities:

• Lead your engineering 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 architectural decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Mapbox’s customer base
• Mentor your peers through 1:1s, facilitating design and code reviews, and providing continuous guidance to foster professional growth and technical excellence
• 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

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services
• Experience in our tech stack - Python, Typescript, Spark, Apache Ray, Iceberg, DuckDB, Parquet, Arrow, and native AWS (CDK, ECS, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront)
• Proficiency using AI as a sounding board and productivity multiplier while maintaining a trust but verify approach auditing AI-generated code for security, performance, and architectural integrity
• Demonstrated ability to profile, tune, and optimize data systems for performance efficiency
• 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 and lead individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
• High quality mindset -- write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production
• Familiarity with both raster and vector geospatial data
• Experience building global imagery mosaics
• Experience building global terrain mosaics