Role Description As a Software Development Engineer III on the Maps API team, you will be responsible for balancing rapid development of new mapping tools against the reliability of our services as they scale into new request volumes, markets, and use cases. 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. - Facilitate continuous delivery at Mapbox. In this role, you can expect to: - Lead your engineering 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 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. - 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. Qualifications - 8-10+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services. - Proficiency in our tech stack — Python, Typescript, and native AWS (CDK, ECS, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront). - Familiarity with both raster and vector geospatial data. - 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 and lead individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. - High quality mindset -- write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production. Requirements - Experience building global imagery mosaics. - Experience building global terrain mosaics. Benefits - Supportive health care. - Parental leave. - Flexibility for personal matters. - Innovative support for employees. Company Description 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. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs, and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers. The Maps API team builds and maintains the applications and infrastructure responsible for creating and distributing Mapbox 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.