Software Development Engineer II, Cloud Platform

Mapbox is a real-time location platform that provides tools for navigation and location-aware applications. The Software Development Engineer II will build and operate cloud-native infrastructure and deployment platforms on AWS, using infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and reliability engineering practices. The role also involves leading migrations, shaping cloud platform strategy, documenting decisions, and participating in on-call support.

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Maintaining secure, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt, as well as legacy CloudFormation/CDK
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Providing tools and processes for observability and disaster recovery
• Developer Experience: Delivering centralized, scalable, and reliable CI/CD pipelines for development teams, based on GitHub Actions
• We are seeking a Software Development Engineer II who is enthusiastic about delivering cloud-native containerized infrastructure and deployment platforms that adhere to GitOps principles and can support dynamic business growth
• Actively onboard AWS resources to the declarative gitops-based framework utilizing Terraform and Terragrunt
• Maintain and troubleshoot legacy cloud infrastructure in AWS that is deployed with Cloudformation/CDK and utilizes ECS, Lambda, EMR, etc
• Architect and promote Kubernetes deployments for new services
• Lead migration of deployment pipelines from ECS and Cloudformation to EKS and ArgoCD
• Architect a centralized CI pipelines framework utilizing GitHub Actions and Runs-on
• Broadly influence and lead the Mapbox Cloud Platform strategy around AWS architecture, open-source tools and frameworks
• Configure and maintain a comprehensive observability platform, such as Datadog or Observe, to enable real-time monitoring, alerting, and analytics
• Promote a culture of operational excellence by testing and monitoring our systems and code, and providing on-call support for the platform services
• Document your work and decision-making processes, and lead presentations and discussions in a way that is easy for others to understand
• Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions
• Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure our systems remain available to customers 24/7. Team members alternate as the on-call primary responder, which may require immediate response outside normal working hours, including weekends

Requirements:

• • 5+ years experience leveraging infrastructure-as-code frameworks to manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Atlantis, CDK
• • 4+ years experience orchestrating containerized workloads at scale using EKS, ECS
• • 4+ years experience managing scalable CI/CD frameworks in a distributed engineering organization using Github Actions
• • Strong expertise with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Istio
• • Proven ability to design and develop cost efficient, secure, and durable solutions on AWS using EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, CloudFront, IAM, Route53, DynamoDB
• • Proficient in at least one programming language, such as Python, Nodejs, GoLang
• • Experience configuring and managing observability systems in a distributed large-scale environment using Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar
• • Experience with incident response practices including blameless post-mortems and resilience engineering concepts
• • A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, and both written and vocal discussion
• • Ability to work asynchronously and independently with minimal supervision, lead by example, and make decisions based on priorities and business goals