Software Development Engineer II, Cloud Platform

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.

The Cloud Platform team at Mapbox provides the infrastructure and frameworks that power Mapbox services in the AWS environment. This globally distributed team, with members in the US, Germany, and Finland, is responsible for managing infrastructure-as-code tooling, CI/CD platforms, test environments, and the foundational compute and networking resources for all Mapbox tools and services. We support over 700 Mapbox engineers (and growing) across North America, Europe, and Japan.

We champion a collaborative environment, promoting individual growth and utilizing cloud-native technologies to make a broad impact.

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.

Cloud Platform core responsibilities encompass the following areas:

• Infrastructure-as-Code: Maintaining secure, reliable, and cost-efficient infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt, as well as legacy Cloud Formation/CDK.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Providing tools and processes for observability and disaster recovery.
• Developer
  
  Experience:
  
  Delivering centralized, scalable, and reliable CI/CD pipelines for development teams, based on Git Hub Actions.

• We are seeking a Software Development Engineer II who is enthusiastic about delivering cloud-native containerized infrastructure and deployment platforms that adhere to Git Ops principles and can support dynamic business growth.
• In this role, you can expect to:
• Actively onboard AWS resources to the declarative gitops-based framework utilizing Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Maintain and troubleshoot legacy cloud infrastructure in AWS that is deployed with Cloud formation/CDK and utilizes ECS, Lambda, EMR, etc.
• Architect and promote Kubernetes deployments for new services.
• Lead migration of deployment pipelines from ECS and Cloud formation to EKS and ArgoCD.
• Architect a centralized CI pipelines framework utilizing Git Hub Actions and Runs-on.
• Broadly influence and lead the Mapbox Cloud Platform strategy around AWS architecture, open-source tools and frameworks.
• Configure and maintain a comprehensive observability platform, such as Datadog or Observe, to enable real-time monitoring, alerting, and analytics.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence by testing and monitoring our systems and code, and providing on‑call support for the platform services.
• Document your work and decision‑making processes, and lead presentations and discussions in a way that is easy for others to understand.
• Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data‑driven decisions.

• 5+ years experience leveraging infrastructure-as-code frameworks to manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform, Terragrunt, Atlantis, CDK
• 4+ years experience orchestrating containerized workloads at scale using EKS, ECS
• 4+ years experience managing scalable CI/CD frameworks in a distributed engineering organization using Github Actions
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Istio
• Proven ability to design and develop cost‑efficient, secure, and durable solutions on AWS using EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, Fargate, Cloud Front, IAM, Route
  53, DynamoDB
• Proficient in at least one programming language, such as Python, Nodejs, Go Lang
• Experience configuring and managing observability systems in a distributed large‑scale environment using Datadog, Cloud Watch, or similar
• Experience with incident response practices including blameless post‑mortems and resilience…