Mapbox is hiring a Geospatial Data Engineer on our Boundaries team

Software Development Engineer II, Maps API

Mapbox US · Mid

Sponsorship not specified$195k-$263kDetected 55 days ago
TypeScriptPythonCode ReviewAWSCI/CDSparkData EngineeringDesign SystemsAuditingCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.
  • Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Responsibilities

  • In a single week on the Maps API team, you might write application code robust to a world's worth of data, build and deploy microservices, diagnose complex system behavior as global markets drive traffic in unexpected ways, or facilitate continuous delivery at Mapbox.
  • Lead your engineering team to identify and scope out well-defined tasks.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • An empirical analytical approach. You develop strong hypotheses, conduct spikes, and clearly communicate your findings.
  • A desire to work with and lead individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services.
  • Experience in our tech stack
  • 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.
  • A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing, and both written and verbal discussion.
  • In this role, you can expect to:

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with both raster and vector geospatial data.
  • In addition to our core values https://www.mapbox.com/about/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 strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
  • Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization.
  • We do not discriminate against any protected class.

Skills

  • Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses.
  • More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform's flexibility, security and privacy compliance.
  • Check out our Mapbox maps https://www.mapbox.com/maps!

Compensation

  • Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $194,650 - $263,350 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • 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.

Company info

  • The Maps API team builds and maintains the applications and infrastructure responsible for creating and distributing Mapbox maps https://www.mapbox.com/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.
  • As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization.
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