Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
MapboxMapbox US$158k – $213kPosted 24 March 2026
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Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
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.
As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making. Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.
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 pro ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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