Software Engineer, Mixpanel
Data Runtime
Digital product analytics
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Digital product analytics
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help companies make better-informed, faster business decisions and produce better products through data analysis.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating data infra/backend systems, with a track record of shipping quality work quickly
- A solid foundation in distributed systems or data infrastructure, and the drive to go deep
- Experience owning a project or significant component end to end: driving the design, building it, shipping it, and running it in production
- Strong technical communication, especially in writing, e.g., design docs, code review, async discussion across a distributed team
- Sound judgment in technical tradeoffs, informed by real lessons from operating systems in production
- High ownership and accountability
- A desire to be at the forefront of the infrastructure powering AI-first analytics at thousands of companies
- Languages: Go, C/C++, Python, and SQL
- Distributed systems: sharding/partitioning, replication, distributed scheduling, work fanout/merge, consistent hashing
- Storage & query engines: columnar formats (Arrow/Parquet or in-house equivalents), indexing, and compression
- Caching: distributed file/block caches, admission and eviction policies, tiered storage
- Performance engineering: profiling (pprof, perf), concurrency, memory management, benchmarking
- Cloud & infra: GCP (GCS, GKE, Spanner) or equivalent AWS/Azure, Kubernetes
- Reliability: observability (metrics, tracing, logging), SLOs, incident management
- AI-augmented engineering: LLM tooling to accelerate development, triage, and operations
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer III (L3) on Data Runtime, you'll design and build the systems that execute every query at Mixpanel.
- You'll contribute to the technical design for complex distributed-systems projects, from prototype to global rollout, on initiatives like elastic query compute, the distributed file cache, columnar storage internals, and compaction
- You'll work alongside some of the most senior engineers at Mixpanel, partner with peer infrastructure teams (Query Serving, Streaming, Data Foundation) and product teams (Core Analysis, AI-powered experiences) on shared architecture, and have real influence over the technical direction of the compute layer that Mixpanel's AI-first future runs on
Our take
Understanding customer behaviour is a vital part of any business. Mixpanel allows companies to answer detailed questions about their customers' behaviour over web and mobile applications. Google has struggled to modernise its somewhat clunky analytics platform in recent years, allowing Mixpanel to become an industry leader in the space.
Technology VC firm Sequoia Capital has backed the company, demonstrating its significant growth potential. Mixpanel CEO Max Levchin was also a previous co-founder of Paypal, which may have helped the company facilitate a tie-up with Paypal-owned Venmo early on. Mixpanel now serves thousands of companies from different industries around the world, including Expedia, Uber, Ancestry, DocuSign, and Lemonade.
The company serves 7,700+ customers across its seven global offices. In line with its global expansion efforts, the company has aimed to enhance localized data, helping its clients tailor their offerings to customers in the right way and at precisely the right time. Mixpanel has also focused on expanding its integrations, being available on more platforms such as Google Cloud Marketplace.
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Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2021
$200m
SERIES C
Dec 2014
$65m
SERIES B
Total funding: $277.3m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Company stock options
- Sabbatical policy
- Paid time off
- Giving back
- Parental leave
- Mental health
- 401(k) match
- Wellness benefits
- Employee choice first
- Growth dollars
- Professional growth hours
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Amir Movafaghi
(CEO)They started their career at Marriott International before spending 5 years at PwC, and a further 5 years at Twitter. They worked as CFO of Spiceworks from 2015-2017, before joining Mixpanel as COO, and was promoted to CEO the following year.
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