Staff Engineer: Places API & Search Engine (Remote)

Mapbox; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 194,650 - 263,350; Full time

Job summary

Mapbox, a leading real-time location platform, seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Search Box team. You will design, develop, and operate major areas of our Search services, including the new Places API product.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and data teams to align with customer needs and market trends, including direct interactions with automotive and mapping partners.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in engineering web services in Rust or Typescript (Node.js).
• Experience building highly-available API services in container-based environments (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, AWS).
• Proficiency in monitoring instrumentation, incident triage, and product improvement.
• Knowledge of OS and distributed systems (fault tolerance, consistency, service discovery).
• Ability to design long-term technical strategies balancing delivery and tech debt.
• Experience driving high-visibility engineering initiatives across teams.
• Interest in solving geo-spatial problems.
• Strong analytical thinking with data-driven decisions.
• Excellent communication across engineering, product, and data teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and advance robust services to optimize API performance and deployment durability.
• Champion engineering excellence with code quality standards and workflows.
• Guide long-term technical architecture and scalability discussions.
• Mentor and empower the engineering team toward continuous growth.
• Drive design and development of service quality metrics and analytics.
• Run experiments to evaluate quality, reliability, and capacity of navigation products.
• Participate in end-to-end feature implementation, code reviews, and on-call rotation.
• Collaborate with business teams to align roadmap with customer needs and market trends.

Skills

7+ years experience

Rust

Typescript

API services

Monitoring/telemetry

Distributed systems

Architectural strategy

Geo-spatial interest

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Docker

ECS

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Mapbox, a leading real-time location platform, seeks a Staff Software Engineer for the Search Box team. You will design, develop, and operate major areas of our Search services, including the new Places API product.

You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and collaborate with product and data teams to align with customer needs and market trends, including direct interactions with automotive and mapping partners.