Software Development Engineer II, Logistics API

Mapbox

Software Development Engineer II responsible for designing API and routing engine services at Mapbox. Collaborating across teams to improve logistics capabilities and service quality.

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsDockerJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsRustTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and implement scalable services for our API and routing engine tiers, following best practices for deployment, resilience, and observability.
Design and improve services that power the data consumption and storage of the routing data.
Drive the design, development, and testing of Mapbox tools.
Shape internal tools and automations to make the whole engineering life easier and fun.
Drive design and development of services quality metrics and analytics.
Run and design experiments to evaluate the quality, reliability, and capacity requirements of our user-facing navigation products.
Participate in end-to-end feature implementation within the larger navigation team; review code and design documents, shepherd feature releases, and participate in an on-call rotation.
Work with product owners, sales engineering, and management to drive future product direction.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience in engineering web services in either Rust or Typescript (Node.js)
Experience building highly-available API services within container-based environments (e.g., Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, etc. on AWS).
Proficiency in implementing monitoring instrumentation, triaging incidents, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement.
Knowledge of operating systems and distributed systems (e.g., fault-tolerance, consistency, service discovery, etc.)
Strong English verbal and written communication skills.
Experience or interest in solving geo-spatial problems.
A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Enthusiasm for learning and knowledge sharing in a multidisciplinary environment.
A rigorous approach to problem solving, using experiments and data analysis to drive quality of service improvements.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

RustTypescriptNode.jsAPI servicesDockerECSKubernetesAWSmonitoring instrumentationdata analysis

Soft Skills

communication skillsproblem solvingcollaborationenthusiasm for learningknowledge sharingadaptabilitycreativityattention to detailcritical thinkingteamwork