Mapbox is hiring a Software Development Engineer II to join a newly formed Telemetry team. You will design, develop, and operate mission-critical services and high-throughput streaming data pipelines that process petabytes of device and geospatial data. Your work will provide company-wide observability, performance metrics, and actionable insights to improve foundational Mapbox products.
What You'll Do
- 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're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services.
- 1+ years of experience building pipelines (streaming) capable of handling petabytes worth of data.
- Eagerness to learn and become proficient with many different tech stacks and languages.
- Knowledge and experience handling global data security standards.
- 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.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Python, NodeJS, TypeScript, Rust, C++
- AWS: CDK, ECS, Fargate, Step Functions, Lambda, S3
Team & Environment
This role is on a newly formed Telemetry team built from the ground up.
Benefits & Compensation
- Supportive health care.
- Parental leave.
- Flexibility for the things that come up in life.
- Environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful.
- Salary Range: $69,300 - $112,200 (USD).
Work Mode
This position is open to candidates for global remote work.
We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.




