Mapbox is hiring a Geospatial Data Engineer on our Boundaries team

Software Development Engineer II, Traffic

Mapbox US · Mid

Work authorization required$161k-$217kDetected 85 days ago

TypeScriptPythonJavaGoRustC++Distributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentGitSQLAWSCI/CDMachine LearningDesign SystemsCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

WHAT WE DO Mapbox is looking to hire motivated, curious, and innovative Software Development Engineers for the Navigation, Traffic team.
This is a highly multidisciplinary team, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.
Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

In a single week, 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.
Collaborate with your team to identify and scope out well-defined tasks
Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Mapbox's customer base
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

Requirements

5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services
Experience with modern programming languages (Python, Rust, Typescript, Java, Go, C++)
Proficiency with cloud services (preferably AWS) in implementing monitoring instrumentation, operational diagnostics, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement
Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub
Ability to engage, learn and contribute quickly to the initiatives
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

Experience and knowledge within the navigation domain
Experience with Amazon Elasticache
Experience with SQL
Experience with Big Data/ML
Experience with various security standards and associated technical knowledge
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.

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.

Compensation

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $160,650 - $217,350 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

Mapbox is looking to hire motivated, curious, and innovative Software Development Engineers for the Navigation, Traffic team.
We develop and maintain the web services powering virtually all of Mapbox's strategic navigation initiatives in consumer, automotive, and logistics.
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

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