Mapbox jobs

Mapbox is seeking a C++ Developer for its Navigation Native team in Minsk, focused on building a high-performance C++17 engine powering navigation SDKs across mobile, web, and automotive platforms. The role involves map-matching algorithms, dead-reckoning, route-following features, and predictive caching on resource-constrained hardware. It requires strong C++ expertise, systems programming knowledge, and cross-platform embedded development experience—not remote US-based.

Software Development Engineer II, Guidance at Mapbox, designing and operating navigation web services including distributed systems, geospatial services, and traffic telemetry. Requires 5+ years backend experience, C++ or Rust, AWS infrastructure expertise. Role appears to require on-site/hybrid presence at Mapbox US office locations.

Software Development Engineer II role on Mapbox's Offline Search team building high-performance on-device search engines for mobile and automotive applications without network connectivity. Responsibilities include designing optimized search algorithms, implementing data compression (Zstd), managing delta updates, and collaborating with automotive OEMs globally. Emphasizes systems optimization under hardware constraints and deep telemetry monitoring; posted for multiple locations including Germany and Helsinki with remote flexibility noted.

Mapbox's POI Search & Relevance team is hiring an algorithm/search engineer to design and optimize the search engine powering location-based queries for drivers, couriers, and other users seeking places and points of interest. You'll own search retrieval algorithms, improve efficiency and ranking, write technical design docs, conduct code reviews, and collaborate cross-functionally with Search Data, Search Evaluation, and API teams to deliver the most relevant results. Required skills include strong understanding of information retrieval and data structures, practical experience optimizing algorithms for performance, fluency in at least one modern language (Java, C++, Rust), and proficiency with monitoring and operational diagnostics. Preferred experience includes maps/routing/navigation, NLP/ML/GenAI, search engines like ElasticSearch or Lucene, and big data at scale. The role requires occasional on-call support outside standard business hours for pager duties and production system monitoring. Mapbox serves 4+ million registered developers and emphasizes supportive health care, parental leave, flexible work arrangements, and a culture of diverse hiring and continuous learning.

Mapbox is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its EV Platform team, which builds the data infrastructure powering global EV charging station coverage. You'll own the full data lifecycle—from integrating new charge point operators and building data ingestion pipelines to designing quality assurance systems and APIs that serve charging data to customers and internal teams. The role requires 3+ years of production Rust experience, hands-on expertise with AWS containerized environments (Docker, ECS, Fargate, or Kubernetes), knowledge of data engineering and distributed systems, and strong system architecture skills. Mapbox is a well-funded location platform company serving 4 million developers; this is a high-visibility position with broad impact across multiple product lines and teams. The role is fully remote and includes on-call responsibilities; the company emphasizes learning culture, diverse hiring, and thoughtful AI integration into engineering workflows.

This is a Software Development Engineer II role on Mapbox's Data Platform team, which builds foundational infrastructure and tools supporting 300+ internal engineers across Search, Navigation, and Maps. You'll design and maintain data ingestion pipelines (handling 100B GPS points daily), batch and streaming systems processing terabytes of data, and internal tools like their managed EMR solution that launches 600+ clusters daily. Required qualifications include 5+ years of software engineering experience, hands-on expertise with AWS services (Lambda, EMR, ECS, Kinesis) and a tech stack of Node.js, Python, Spark, and Airflow, plus proven experience building developer-focused self-service tools and working with distributed systems at scale. Mapbox is fully remote across the US and Canada with async-first culture, and compensation ranges from $160,650–$217,350 depending on location and experience. The company explicitly values engineers who thoughtfully integrate AI into their workflows and will discuss this in interviews, and they emphasize operational excellence with on-call responsibilities for maintaining service health.

Mapbox seeks a QA/Demo Ops associate in Minsk to perform manual and automated UI testing, develop test documentation, and report issues. The role requires QA/automation experience, programming knowledge (Kotlin preferred), and GitHub/Jira proficiency. This is a QA/testing function located in Belarus, outside James's required US-remote scope.

Mapbox is hiring a Software Development Engineer II (Fullstack) to join the Studio team, which builds the company's flagship map design tool—a React/Redux application used by millions of developers worldwide. You'll lead contributions to Studio's frontend architecture, ship performant and testable code, solve complex technical problems, and collaborate with designers and teammates to enable faster map creation workflows. Required expertise includes React and TypeScript proficiency, complex state management with Redux, RESTful API integration, AWS familiarity, and testing frameworks like Playwright or Jest; you should also demonstrate operational excellence through monitoring and on-call support. Mapbox values AI integration in engineering workflows and will discuss your approach during interviews; nice-to-haves include CI/CD pipeline experience, frontend performance optimization, and geospatial technology background. The role is fully remote and the company emphasizes flexibility, supportive healthcare, parental leave, and a diverse, learning-oriented culture. This is a mid-level position requiring deep fullstack execution capability and the ability to mentor peers while maintaining system health.