The opportunity
Mixpanel Engineering is a small, fast-moving team focused on delivering real value to customers. We build powerful AI-powered product analytics while obsessing over clarity, simplicity, and delight.
What you'll do
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
+ 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.
What they're looking for
- 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.
