Software Development Engineer II, Incidents

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<p style="min-height:1.5em">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. </p><h2></h2><h2><strong>What We Do</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">We build the mission-critical engine that powers real-time navigation for Mapbox's largest global customers. We process petabytes of geospatial data through a sophisticated blend of high-scale backend services, data pipelines, and AI Agentic workflows to detect, validate, and deliver live road updates - from traffic jams to road closures. The intelligent AI agents we build enhance our core algorithms, ensuring Mapbox maps are as dynamic as the roads themselves and that millions of drivers reach their destinations in the most optimal way possible.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Engineers on this team develop and deliver of every stage of the incident lifecycle:</p><ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Intelligent Ingestion and Detection</strong>: Build automated AI agents to gather data and discover closures using proprietary Mapbox signals.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Validation and Conflation</strong>: Leverage algorithms to invalidate stale data and merge duplicate reports into a single, high-fidelity source of truth.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Strategic Delivery</strong>: Design the systems that expose this data across the entire Mapbox ecosystem.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>AI Collaboration</strong>: Partner with the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.mapbox.com/mapgpt"><u>MapGPT team</u></a> to evolve our <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.mapbox.com/feedback-agent"><u>Feedback Agent</u></a>, allowing us to refine the map using real-time customer insights.</p></li></ol><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What You'll Do</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">As a Software Development Engineer II (Senior) on the Incidents team, you can expect to:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Collaborate with your team to identify and scope out well-defined tasks.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Execute on the scope and be accountable for delivering on time with quality.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of Mapbox’s customer base.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Reduce technical debt, share your knowledge, and invest in your teammates’ health and happiness, while optimizing application performance and accelerating feature velocity.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">5+ years of experience building scalable high volume low latency backend services</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">1+ years of experience building pipelines (streaming) capable of handling petabytes worth of data</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Eagerness to learn and become proficient with many different test stacks and languages – Python, NodeJS, TypeScript, C++, and AWS (CDK, ECS, Fargate, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, etc.)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Knowledge and experience handling global data security standards</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with code versioning tools, such as GitHub</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Ability to engage, learn and contribute quickly to the initiatives</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Able to perform independently all the development tasks, based on designs and specs.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Self-starter who is communication and outcomes-oriented</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">An empirical analytical approach. You develop strong hypotheses, conduct spikes, and clearly communicate your findings</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, pairing and both written and verbal discussion</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">High quality mindset -- write unit tests, proactively remedy defects and follow through to production </p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>What We Value</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">In addition to <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.mapbox.com/about/values/">our core values</a>, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:</p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our annual compensation for this role ranges from $75,000 - $112,000 (salaries are in USD). Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role).</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you have received the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.mapbox.com/legal/applicant-privacy-notice/">Mapbox Non-US Privacy Notice</a> for applicants, which is linked here. Completing this application requires you to provide personal data, such as your name and contact information, which is mandatory for Mapbox to process your application. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><br>#LI-Remote</p>

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