Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. The Software Development Engineer II role on the Boundaries team focuses on data engineering for feature expansion, improving coverage, increasing polygon precision, and building pipelines to ingest new data sources.
Responsibilities
- Integrate third-party data sources from different geographic areas into our data pipelines
- Inspect and edit geospatial data using open-source tools
- Develop geographic data processing pipelines
- Interface with engineers from other teams to understand their needs for geospatial data and provide solutions
- Implement automated quality metrics to ensure we are continuously delivering high quality data to our customers
- Mentor other software engineers to develop all aspects of their engineering skill sets, including participating in design and code reviews
Skills
- 5+ years of industry experience working with data pipelines
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (like Python or Java) suitable for data processing
- Expertise with GIS tools and processes, preferably open-source ones such as QGIS, Postgres/PostGIS, GDAL/OGR, GeoJSON
- Experience with AWS technologies like S3 and Athena
- Experience writing bash scripts and running command line tools
- Working knowledge with SQL databases and ideally experience writing custom functions (e.g. with pl/pgsql)
- Excellent debugging experience and performance profiling that includes running QA or test systems at scale
- Strong experience with batch data processing and developed judgment to implement new data pipelines and best practices around it
- Comfortable working with a git-based environment (such as GitHub)
- Familiarity with Docker
- Familiarity with CI/CD processes
- Integrating data with APIs and querying data through APIs
- Familiarity working with Iceberg, Glue and AWS Step Functions
Benefits
- Supportive health care
- Parental leave
- Flexibility for the things that come up in life
- Innovating on how we think about supporting our people
- An environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company
Company Overview
Mapbox develops a location data platform for mobile and web applications. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.mapbox.com.