Remote Data Engineer II Search Boundaries bei Mapbox
Mapbox · Washington, DC, Vereinigte Staaten Von Amerika · Remote
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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 3.5 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 DoMapbox Boundaries is an expertly curated set of global boundary data that allows you to add boundaries to your maps, dashboards, and data visualizations. Mapbox Boundaries consists of multiple data layers that come cartographically-matched, georeferenced, and processed as a Mapbox vector tileset ready for integration with your maps and data. From business intelligence analysis and data journalism to territory planning and logistics management, customers utilize boundary maps data in countless solutions.Here Are Some Of Our Recent Boundaries Blog Posts
- As a data engineer on the Boundaries team, you will:
- 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
- 5+ years of industry experience working with data pipelines
- 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 with Lambda, Glue, and EMR is a bonus)
- 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)
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (like Python or Java) suitable for data processing
- 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 Apache Spark, Pandas, or Hadoop-based technologies is a bonus
- Experience working with OSM and Wikidata data
- Cartography experience is a plus
- Knowledge of global boundary disputes is a plus
- Empathy when it comes to listening and understanding complex problems and finding simple solutions
- Autonomy and ability to drive project completion in the face of ambiguity for the customer’s favor
- Ability and willingness pivot to new languages, skills, and techniques quickly
- Desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, and both written and vocal discussion
- Openness to building internal tools to accelerate workflows
- 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.
