Software Engineer

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

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