Mapbox is hiring a Geospatial Data Engineer on our Boundaries team

Software Development Engineer II, Search

Mapbox US · Mid

Work authorization required$161k-$217kDetected 188 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoRustC++Data StructuresAlgorithmsCode ReviewElasticsearchAWSMachine LearningNLPLLMsA/B TestingCollaborationProblem SolvingCritical Thinking

About the role

  • Our interview process will include discussion of how you use AI in your engineering workflow.
  • Please discuss your specific work location with your recruiter for more information.

Responsibilities

  • The Search Geocoding team has direct ownership of Mapbox's geocoding search engine including Conflation, Query Understanding, document retrieval, and overall ranking.
  • Writing technical design documents and participating in design and code reviews
  • Owning the efficiency and accuracy of your designs, as well as being responsible for overseeing your own work through the development and implementation lifecycle, ultimately delivering excellent end results
  • Practical experience in making an algorithms perform efficiently upon implementation
  • Excellent problem solving skills and analytical skills, valuing a scientific approach by using experimentation and critical thinking to drive and validate high quality solutions

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of search techniques (such as information retrieval) and data structures
  • Ability to write sophisticated, highly performant, and reliable solutions
  • Experience with modern programming languages (Javascript, Python, Rust, Java, Typescript, C++, Go)
  • Proficiency with cloud services (preferably AWS) in implementing monitoring instrumentation, operational diagnostics, resolving customer issues, and continuous product improvement
  • We have a modern development process - analyzing our initial algorithms, implementing and experimenting as we go, adjusting and optimizing our solutions to ultimately provide the best user experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience with maps, routing, navigation
  • Experience with NLP/ML/Generative AI
  • Experience with search engines such as ElasticSearch, Solr, Lucene
  • Experience with solving challenging search problems
  • Experience with big data and scale, data mining and science
  • In addition to our core values https://www.mapbox.com/about/values/, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
  • We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
  • We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work.

Skills

  • 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.

Compensation

  • Our annual base compensation for this role ranges from $160,650 - $217,350 for most US locations and 5% to 10% higher for US locations with a higher cost of labor.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Promoting a culture of operational excellence by meticulously testing and monitoring our systems and codes, and being available/on-call to support the health of our services

Company info

  • The Search Geocoding team is responsible for building the best location-based search engine that empowers customers that require an intelligent Maps search solutions to find places and points of interest as quickly and with fewer keystrokes as possible.
  • We do this by developing groundbreaking algorithms and features, applying the latest cutting edge technologies, and creating cost efficient, scalable solutions that can keep up with the ever changing dynamics of the world in near real-time fashion.
  • As AI becomes embedded in modern engineering workflows, we value engineers who can thoughtfully integrate AI into design, development, and decision-making.
  • We work very closely with our partners, Search Data, Search Evaluation and Search API teams among others, to ensure that we provide the best solution for our customers at all times through cross-team collaboration and open communication.
  • Collaborating with other engineers, PMs and teams internationally and cross functionally to deliver a high quality experience to our customers
  • Whatever the use case may be, our customers rely on us to provide the most relevant, location aware suggestions for any given query.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Mapbox participates in E-Verify to confirm employee work authorization.
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