Software Development Engineer II, Navigation, Traffic

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What We Do

Mapbox is looking to hire motivated, curious, and innovative Software Development Engineer 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. This is a highly multidisciplinary team, with work spanning distributed systems on AWS to geospatial localization, traffic telemetry, and mapping.

As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making. Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.

What You'll Do

As a Software Development Engineer II on the Navigation Traffic team, you will be responsible for balancing the rapid development of new navigation solutions against the reliability of our services as they scale into new request volumes, markets, and use cases. 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.

In this role, you can expect to:

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

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.

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services

Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, TypeScript (backend), AWS (CDK/ECS/Step Functions/Lambda/S3)

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