Mapbox
Location Platform
SoftwareDevelopmentEngineerII,DataPlatform
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“Software Development Engineer II, Data Platform at Mapbox. Skills: Data Platform, AWS, Data Infrastructure, Data Tooling. Building data infrastructure and tooling. Working on batch and streaming ingestion systems”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver external customer-facing products and services; Grow the foundation of the Mapbox Platform
Industry & Context.
Dig into problems and opportunities
On-call support
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of industry experience, Experience designing, building, and maintaining internal tools and services on AWS, Experience with distributed systems at scale, Track record of building self-service and high-quality tools for developers with a customer-driven mindset
Nice to Have
Experience with some or all of our tech stack: Node. js, Python, Spark, Airflow, and AWS (including Lambda, EMR, ECS and Kinesis)
What You'll Do.
Building data infrastructure and tooling
Working on batch and streaming ingestion systems
Simplifying and strengthening processes and tools for designing
and monitoring data processing and querying workloads on AWS
Promoting a culture of operational excellence
Being on-call to support the health of services
Documenting work and decision-making processes
Leading presentations and discussions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Support internal Mapbox engineers; Collaborative team environment; Work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences
Communication Scope
Lead presentations and discussions in a way that is easy for others to understand; Written and vocal discussion
Process & Methodology
Driving work to completion in the face of ambiguity
Full Job Description
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 The Data Platform team provides the foundational infrastructure, products, and tools for data applications that Mapbox Engineers on our Search, Navigation, and Maps teams build upon to deliver external customer-facing products and services. We support 300+ Mapbox Engineers located all around the world. We are distributed across the US and Canada. We work remotely, and mostly async. We believe in iterative process experimentation, quarterly team feedback surveys and are proud of our collaborative team environment that fosters growth and delivery at scale. Our area of ownership includes Mapbox’s events ingestion pipeline that collects 100 billion GPS points per day and powers live traffic and Mapbox Movement, a human mobility dataset. We own “Loading Dock,” an internal ETL tool that processes petabytes of data per day. In addition, We also develop a managed EMR solution providing developers streamlined tooling for launching 600+ clusters per day in our data heavy organization. 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 We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II (SDEII) who is passionate about building and delivering internal data tools, pipelines, and platforms that help grow the foundation of the Mapbox Platform. As
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