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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Mapbox
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/10/2025 CLOSED ON 1/9/2026

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cloud Platform Engineer position at Mapbox?

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.

What We Do

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.

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 CloudFormation/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 GitHub Actions.

What You'll Do

We are seeking a Software Development Engineer II who is enthusiastic about delivering cloud-native containerized infrastructure and deployment platforms that adhere to GitOps 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 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.
  • Uphold a culture of collaboration, transparency, creativity, inclusion, and data-driven decisions.

What We Believe Are Important Traits For This Role

  • 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

What We Value

In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

  • We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
  • We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
  • We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
  • We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.

Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $157,675 - $213,325 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor. Job level and actual compensation will be decided based on factors including, but not limited to, individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process (including skills and prior relevant experience, potential impact, and scope of role), market demands, and specific work location. Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge that you agree to the Mapbox Privacy Policy which is linked here.

Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization. Please refer to the Notice of E-Verify Participation and Right to Work posters for more information.

We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.

Salary : $157,675 - $213,325

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