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Software Development Engineer II, Data Platform

Job in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listing for: Mapbox
Full Time, Seasonal/Temporary position
Listed on 2025-12-01
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 157675 - 213325 USD Yearly USD 157675.00 213325.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Overview

Software Development Engineer II, Data Platform — Mapbox. Apply for the Software Development Engineer II, Data Platform role at Mapbox.

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox provides tools to power navigation for people, packages, and vehicles. More than 4 million developers choose Mapbox for its flexibility, security, and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs, and APIs to create customized experiences for 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 globally. Our team is distributed across the US and Canada. We work remotely, mostly async, and value iterative process experimentation, quarterly team feedback, and a collaborative environment that fosters growth and delivery  ownership includes Mapbox’s events ingestion pipeline (100 billion GPS points/day) and powers live traffic and Mapbox Movement, a human mobility dataset.

We also own Load ing Dock, an internal ETL tool that processes petabytes of data per day, and we develop a managed EMR solution for launching 600+ clusters per day in our data-heavy organization.

What You’ll Do
  • Support internal Mapbox engineers by building data infrastructure and tooling that addresses their needs.
  • Work on batch and streaming ingestion systems that ingest terabytes of data per day.
  • Simplify and strengthen Mapbox’s processes and tools for designing, deploying, and monitoring data processing and querying workloads on AWS.
  • Promote operational excellence by testing and monitoring our systems and code, and being on-call to support the health of our services.
  • Document work and decision-making, and lead presentations and discussions that are easy for others to understand.
  • Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions.
Important Traits For This Role
  • 5+ years of industry experience.
  • Experience designing, building, and maintaining internal tools and services on AWS.
  • Experience with Node.js, Python, Spark, Airflow, and AWS (Lambda, EMR, ECS, Kinesis).
  • Experience with distributed systems at scale.
  • Track record of building self-service, high-quality tools for developers with a customer-driven mindset.
  • Desire to share expertise through documentation, mentorship, and both written and oral communication.
  • Desire to work with diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
  • Autonomy and proactivity in driving work to completion amidst ambiguity.
What We Value
  • We value high-performing, creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
  • We believe in supporting employees’ whole selves at work, including health care, parental leave, flexibility, and ongoing innovation in people support.
  • We emphasize teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful.
  • We value growing a diverse team and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations.
Compensation and Location

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $157,675 - $213,325 for most US locations, with 5% to 10% higher for locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation are decided based on qualifications, interview performance, market demands, and location. Please discuss your work location with your recruiter for more information.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge agreement to the Mapbox Privacy Policy. Mapbox participates in E-Verify. See the Notice of E-Verify Participation and Right to Work posters for more information. We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process and do not discriminate against any protected class.

Role Details
  • Seniority level:
    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type:

    Full-time
  • Job function:
    Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries:
    Software Development

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