Software Development Engineer III, Search API

Role Description

Joining us as a Staff Software Engineer on the Search Box team, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and operating significant areas of our Search services, including our new Places API product.

• Architect and advance robust services that optimize API performance, emphasizing excellence in deployment, system durability, and telemetry.
• Champion engineering excellence by instituting rigorous code quality standards and refining development workflows across the organization.
• Drive strategic decisions regarding our long-term technical architecture and scalability, participating in high-level architectural discourse.
• Serve as a mentor and technical authority for the engineering team, cultivating a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
• 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 Search Org; review code and design documents, shepherd feature releases, and participate in an on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with business development teams to ensure that the product roadmap and design align with customer needs and market trends.
• Engage in direct communication with trend-setting customers, automotive OEMs in EU, US, Japan, and China, as well as suppliers like automotive Tier 1 companies and Mapping firms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of 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.).
• Proven ability to design long-term technical strategies that balance immediate product delivery with the reduction of systemic technical debt across multiple departments.
• Extensive experience driving high-visibility initiatives that improve engineering standards and operational excellence for the cross-functional teams.
• Experience or interest in solving geo-spatial problems.
• Strong analytical thinking and the ability to justify technical decisions using system telemetry and data.
• Meticulous attention to detail and a creative, resourceful approach to problem-solving.
• Excellent communication skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional engineering, product, and data teams.

Requirements

• Prior experience in the mapping, navigation, or automotive industry.
• Knowledge of machine learning techniques for geospatial data analysis.
• Contributions to open-source geospatial or data analysis projects.

Benefits

• Supportive health care and parental leave.
• Flexibility for personal life events.
• Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Company Description

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security, and privacy compliance.