Software Development Engineer III, Telemetry

It is an exciting time to join Mapbox as we build a brand-new Telemetry team from the ground up to power the next generation of navigation, maps, and search products at a global scale. This newly formed team will design, develop, and operate mission-critical services and high-throughput streaming data pipelines that process petabytes of device information and geospatial data. These systems will provide company-wide observability, performance metrics, and actionable insights that directly inform how we can improve all our foundational Mapbox products such as Navigation SDK, Maps SDK, and data products such as Traffic, Movement, Boundaries, and Roads. This Telemetry team will sit at the core of Mapbox’s strategic initiatives across consumer, automotive, and logistics use cases, directly shaping how millions of people and businesses move through the world. 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.

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

8+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services; 3+ years of experience building pipelines (streaming) capable of handling petabytes worth of data; Eagerness to learn and become proficient with many different test stacks and languages – Python, NodeJS, TypeScript, Rust, C++, and AWS (CDK, ECS, Fargate, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, etc.); 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

Nice to have

Ability to thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making

Benefits

Supportive health care; parental leave; flexibility for the things that come up in life