Software Development Engineer II, Traffic

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. 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. As a Software Development Engineer II on the Navigation Traffic team, you will be responsible for balancing 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.

Responsibilities

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

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; Experience integrating AI into design, development, and decision-making; 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

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

Benefits

Supportive health care; Parental leave; Flexibility for the things that come up in life; Teaching and learning environment