Overview
Mapbox is a leading real-time location platform that powers navigation for people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Search API team, you will play a crucial role in enhancing the quality of our geocoding search engine, helping users find the places, addresses, and businesses they search for daily.
What You'll Do
- Develop robust, flexible, and performant information retrieval systems in Rust to support the best geocoding search engine on the market.
- Design and implement scalable services for our API and search engines, following and establishing best practices for deployment, resiliency, and observability.
- Participate in end-to-end feature implementation within the larger search organization; review code and design documents, shepherd feature releases, and participate in an on-call rotation.
- Evaluate the quality, reliability, and capacity requirements of our user-facing search products and become a well-rounded owner of what you deliver.
- Work with product owners, sales engineering, and management to drive future product direction.
- Mentor other software engineers to develop all aspects of their engineering skill sets.
What We Believe Are Important Traits For This Role
- 4+ years of industry experience.
- Strong understanding of search techniques (such as information retrieval) and data structure with ability to engineer performant solutions.
- Experience working on search engines (e.g. ranking, relevance, recommendations, etc.).
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams.
- Proficiency in implementing monitoring instrumentation, operational diagnostics, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement.
Nice to Have Traits for This Role
- Experience with search engines such as ElasticSearch, Solr, Lucene.
- Experience with NLP/ML/Generative AI.
- Experience with Node.js applications.
- Experience building highly-available API services within container-based environments (e.g. Docker, ECS, etc. on AWS).
- Experience with geospatial data and services.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Competitive salary
- Remote work flexibility
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