Software Development Engineer III

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer III (SDEIII) who is passionate about building and delivering internal developer tools and services that help grow the foundation of the Mapbox Platform.

As an SDEIII on the Cloud Platform team, you can expect to:

• Lead and deliver our company-wide retooling and migration to a multi-account AWS environment.
• Support Mapbox Engineers by building reliable and scalable infrastructure and adaptable tooling that addresses their needs.
• Broadly influence and lead the Mapbox Cloud Platform strategy including AWS architecture, best practices and Operational Excellence company wide.
• Architect and maintain a comprehensive observability platform, such as Datadog or Observe, to enable real-time monitoring, alerting, and analytics across the company's entire cloud infrastructure.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and code, and being on-call to support the health of our services.
• Design systems that “see around the corner” to enable the rapid growth of Mapbox.
• 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.

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• Located in the US/Canada Eastern Time Zone.
• 8-10+ years of relative industry engineering experience.
• Experience working in a large-scale, complex AWS multi-account architecture. 
• Passion for developing internal tools and infrastructure for Mapbox Engineers.
• Proven ability to design and develop sophisticated, efficient, secure, and durable infrastructure on AWS.
• Experience with our tech stack – NodeJS, TypeScript, Terraform, and AWS (EC2, ECS, Fargate, CDK, CloudFormation, CDN, IAM, Route53, DynamoDB).
• Track record of building secure self-service and high-quality tools for developers with a customer-driven mindset.
• A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, and both written and vocal discussion.
• A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
• Autonomy and proactivity around driving work to completion in the face of ambiguity.

Nice to Have Traits for Cloud Platform

• Cloud Security: Experience with building and delivering secure infrastructure and software, including threat modeling, complex IAM and resource management.
• Data governance, data privacy: GDPR, CCPA compliance, encryption standards, and implementing secure data lifecycle management practices within cloud environments.
• FinOps: instrumenting cost tracking, understanding cloud pricing models by service and use case, implementing cost-optimization strategies (like SavingsPlans, Reserved Instances, Budgets) and automating the shut down of over-provisioned deployments.