Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Overview

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. We equip 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.

Key Responsibilities

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.

• 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 Cloudformation/CDK and utilizes ECS, Lambda, EMR, etc.
• Architect and promote Kubernetes deployments for new services.
• Lead migration of deployment pipelines from ECS and Cloudformation to EKS and ArgoCD.
• Architect a centralized CI pipelines framework utilizing GitHub 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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, CloudFront, IAM, Route53, DynamoDB
• Proficient in at least one programming language, such as Python, Nodejs, GoLang
• Experience configuring and managing observability systems in a distributed large-scale environment using Datadog, CloudWatch, or similar
• Experience with incident response practices including blameless post-mortems and resilience engineering concepts
• A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, and both written and vocal discussion
• Ability to work asynchronously and independently with minimal supervision, lead by example, and make decisions based on priorities and business goals